Yehuda Katz  🥨Verified account

We talked to @wycats about this kind of (accidental? intentional?) shift to developer-centrism on a recent @copypastepod episode. Yehuda’s “next 5 years” vision is to put web development back into the hands of designers, learners, hobbyists. This has me wondering how I can help.

I’ve heard several devs I admire say “if I were to start now, I’m not sure I’d have made it into web development”. This goal-post-moving is insidious and a bad long term plan. It puts the web at risk vs. the focus on approachability I’ve seen in hardware/mobile/native dev.

I'm gonna put my focus into Ember and the Ember community, which has a great perspective on this problem and not a lot of people fighting for approaches that make it harder to for experienced developers to share with beginners.

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.