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I'm on both sides with this one.

I feel like someone could have written the same 10 years ago. "But why do we need something so inefficient as Python, we have C that does the job and is much faster". "GUIs? Such a waste of resources, CLIs do the job just fine and you go faster with it!"

At the same time, I'm also personally quite bored with the sheer amount of complexity we seem to put in everything those days. Layers of frameworks on top of frameworks, especially for simple projects. My friends who followed bootcamps lately learn React, not Web Dev. That is a problem IMHO in the Long run.



Getting a job straight out of a bootcamp is hard. Getting a front-end job out of a bootcamp without knowing the most popular technologies is even harder.

Bootcamp's interest will always be to increase their students odds to be hired rather than foundational knowledge


200% behind you! My point was not to shoot at bootcamps. (Though currently in Europe my friends working in bootcamps have never seen such a fast hire rate).

Bootcamps follow what the market requires. My main point was more about the market we have created for ourselves :).




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