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It's easy enough to write code when you're young, but to write something that is being actively used is impressive. With that being said, I do find the worship
by EnderMB 9y ago
It's easy enough to write code when you're young, but to write something that is being actively used is impressive.
With that being said, I do find the worship of young people in tech a bit worrying. Over the years I've worked with a handful of talented developers that have started from a very young age, and over the years they become very good at a relatively young age. By the time they reach 20, they're senior-level developers.
That's all well and good, but these youngsters have been praised for years. Once they reach their twenties, they go from being young to being an adult, like everyone else. All of a sudden, the slack they were given to build their career up is gone, and many of them struggle from here onwards. It can be a mixture of being treated differently, or from essentially being jaded about dedicating that many years of their youth to a skill to be building the same old CRUD shit year after year.
- cableshaft 9y agoMy brother was a security consultant for a few major websites that you've most likely used yourself at the age of 16, many years ago. He knew more about security at 16 than most developers I work with today. Don't discount someone's knowledge or abilities because of an arbitrary age. He's still successfully protecting servers from getting hacked today, when pretty much every other server is getting hacked nowadays.
- simplify 9y agoDid you reply to the wrong comment? They didn't say anything dismissive, and even expressed the impressiveness of someone writing a usable app at 16.
- msla 9y agoThere's nothing magic about writing software. There's nothing magic about writing software people use. The magic is in being in a position where your software is in a position to reach people who can use it. Traditionally, this was handled through pure nepotism, but these days it's possible for people to succeed without such connections.