> I'm not trying to be overly critical, but for a lot of us, "discovering that C-based apps are, weirdly, similar to what us React-ites are doing" sure seems li

> I'm not trying to be overly critical, but for a lot of us, "discovering that C-based apps are, weirdly, similar to what us React-ites are doing" sure seems like a step backwards from real stack competency. This is something that I try to impart on all new hires. Collective we have been making great strides in this industry lately, and in my experience, the more inexperience devs tend to get blinded by all of the shiny. This isn't inherently bad; a lot of CS breakthroughs are tough to learn without the appropriate domain knowledge. But practical stuff that most devs use ins't anything fancy. It's the same concepts from years ago with config files attached to it. We don't stress learning algorithms so that you can write a perfect quicksort implementation from memory. We want you to know the fundamentals so that tomorrows new technology becomes trivial to learn.