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Discussion on: Are newer developers pushed too exclusively towards web development?

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Amin

I just saw a 7 years-old kid on Twitter making a presentation on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I watch it all out. All. of. it. He could have made a one-hour presentation I'm 100% sure I would have watched it until the end.

I think that speaks for itself.

Accessibility for beginners is one hell of an argument. Making a game in JavaScript requires pretty much nothing. You have a Web Browser (installed on most operating systems). You have a text editor (installed on most operating systems). You have all that you need to publish your first website. I'm so wrong, nowadays we can even develop without having a single tool installed in our computer with the rise of SaaS and PaaS.

While on the other hand, you'll have to installed so much tools for doing native applications for smartphones (if you have the necessary resources because I doubt this would hold on my 2009 computer with 4Go of RAM).

I could take on many other fields in CS but if we could do better, we would have to re-engineer so much things to make it more accessible (networking, system programming, ...). While in the Web ecosystem, it just takes an update of the browser to be able to communicate with the Bluetooth without too much hassle.