Re:JavaScript right on the hardware
by coreyja on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @10:10PM
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I understand where you are coming from, and I don't like the "it allows people to get into programming more easily" excuse either.
But I don't really think it will inhibit growth. I think that it is more likely just to create two main groups of people that call themselves programmers. The people that know HTML and jQuery and the actual programmers. I don't think it will do anything to the growth of real programming, it just might mean we get lots of people calling themselves programmers who really aren't. But that happens already.
Re:JavaScript right on the hardware
by 14113 on Thursday August 15, 2013 @08:14AM
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I think that segregation in of itself can be dangerous too though. People will get stuck in the web programmer mindset, and never progress if they're interested in anything else.
But I don't really think it will inhibit growth. I think that it is more likely just to create two main groups of people that call themselves programmers. The people that know HTML and jQuery and the actual programmers. I don't think it will do anything to the growth of real programming, it just might mean we get lots of people calling themselves programmers who really aren't. But that happens already.