I agree with you. However, over 29 years in IT and 21 of those years spent in Dev have beaten it out of me. Let me see if I can restate a part of what you mean:
There are tools we devs have to use that are supposed to just work so we never have to look at them (build systems like gradle in Android are a great example as are IDEs (XCode on Apple, Visual Studio, etc)). Then those underlying things break and we have to learn some technology that is indirectly related to actually creating the product or writing the code. This makes it very difficult to focus on doing the thing that you do, because you end up wasting your time working on some esoteric detail of an underlying tool. 🤮 But, such is the Dev Life.
While tools seem like they could be nice, depending. Wouldn't it just be nice to have just the language, its RTE, and maybe some additional libraries, etc...
I personally feel like it's a waste of time learning tools. Personally, tools just seem like a bit of overcomplication to the process.
Seriously, the only language like what I'm describing is Python, and that's just barely like how I describe, escaping by just the grace of the python command, and the functionality of running when you DLClick a .py/.pyw file.
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I agree with you. However, over 29 years in IT and 21 of those years spent in Dev have beaten it out of me. Let me see if I can restate a part of what you mean:
There are tools we devs have to use that are supposed to just work so we never have to look at them (build systems like gradle in Android are a great example as are IDEs (XCode on Apple, Visual Studio, etc)). Then those underlying things break and we have to learn some technology that is indirectly related to actually creating the product or writing the code. This makes it very difficult to focus on doing the thing that you do, because you end up wasting your time working on some esoteric detail of an underlying tool. 🤮 But, such is the Dev Life.
While tools seem like they could be nice, depending. Wouldn't it just be nice to have just the language, its RTE, and maybe some additional libraries, etc...
I personally feel like it's a waste of time learning tools. Personally, tools just seem like a bit of overcomplication to the process.
Seriously, the only language like what I'm describing is Python, and that's just barely like how I describe, escaping by just the grace of the
pythoncommand, and the functionality of running when you DLClick a.py/.pywfile.