It's the latter, but not for the reasons you would think. It's not that the sphere isn't welcoming - we try our damndest to get more diversity and encourage every last group to give it a shot.
It is jading, and the attempts to cater to them specifically make it seem like a) there's a reason we have to cater to them and b) we deal with the jading nature better.
That couldn't be further from the truth (heck, the entire space of programming was effectively built on the backs of minorities of various kinds), but people get burnt out a lot more with the implied pressure. That's the common thread through every talk I've had with people who quit: by presupposing their hardships we actually deepen the divide much more than just by organically letting them enter.
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It's the latter, but not for the reasons you would think. It's not that the sphere isn't welcoming - we try our damndest to get more diversity and encourage every last group to give it a shot.
It is jading, and the attempts to cater to them specifically make it seem like a) there's a reason we have to cater to them and b) we deal with the jading nature better.
That couldn't be further from the truth (heck, the entire space of programming was effectively built on the backs of minorities of various kinds), but people get burnt out a lot more with the implied pressure. That's the common thread through every talk I've had with people who quit: by presupposing their hardships we actually deepen the divide much more than just by organically letting them enter.