Excellent article. It is easy for developers to have this mindset and gate keep. All of the concepts you touched should be explored and learned throughout a dev's career but by no means should be used to shame someone. Each subject is so incredibly dense as well. Each requiring a considerable time commitment to become comfortable and competent with. I have been developing since early 2016 and consider my knowledge with FP/OOP pretty strong but there are people in this world that can make me look completely incompetent. Point is that doesn't that make me any less of a developer.
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Excellent article. It is easy for developers to have this mindset and gate keep. All of the concepts you touched should be explored and learned throughout a dev's career but by no means should be used to shame someone. Each subject is so incredibly dense as well. Each requiring a considerable time commitment to become comfortable and competent with. I have been developing since early 2016 and consider my knowledge with FP/OOP pretty strong but there are people in this world that can make me look completely incompetent. Point is that doesn't that make me any less of a developer.
Exactly!