Re: "guaranteed a job."
I thought I could learn any language out there also. I paid my rent writing COBOL against DB2 data in the 80-90's, took classes in C and Java, wrote a JSP e-commerce website somewhere around 2006, wrote a simple Android app around the same time and then, around 2019, decided to look down the dark tunnel of front-end programming. HTML5, CSS3, javascript with node.js, angular, react, ajax, bootstrap.js, jquery, json and PHP. I spent about a year trying to learn this shite on my own. I don't know at what point I decided this just wasn't worth it, but it just seemed to be too much 'cute' code - i.e., how much you can do in one sentence and not be obvious in your intent. I also didn't like the way javascript isn't type-safe. The difference between procedural and functional programming paradigms? Maybe. Or I just might be old.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
