Yehuda Katz  🥨Verified account

Intermediate developers are underserved in communities like Rails and Ember. imo this is largely because there isn't enough material to help people level up their skills and bosses don't give people time to learn in familiar environments.

This leads to people jumping from their normal day-to-day task to an ecosystem more focused on teaching intermediate developers more skills, and bosses are pretty ok with people spending 6 months to migrate something to react or microservices.

But the way that these environments are friendly to intermediate developers looking to learn is by exposing the guts of the solution up front. This does force the issue on learning but also reduces accessibility (or generally increases beginner confusion)

TLDR I think it's incumbent on conventional tools to focus on an "intermediate track" where people can level up their skills beyond the framework's public face, and it's incumbent upon bosses to give people time to learn in existing parts of the stack.

Oh by the way it doesn't help that the tech community completely abandoned windows, which is where most beginners live. I started rails on Windows using RADRails. Today, rails new doesn't work on Windows.