...and then there we are with professional programmers who can't run javac without fully-blown IDE, don't know that you can package class files to a JAR to ship

...and then there we are with professional programmers who can't run javac without fully-blown IDE, don't know that you can package class files to a JAR to ship a program, and think that you need two dozen different tools with their quirky configuration to ship a trivial web page to present static text. No, programmers should start with the simplest tools and learn on concrete examples why and what for the more complex ones are needed (or that they are completely redundant and unnecessary).