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Discussion on: Do I need to code in my free time to be a good developer?

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Ben Read

This is a really good roundup, thank you very much for writing it.

I think a lot of the expectation around this comes from the very earliest days of the web, where the Netscape team used to work all night in order to get features for new releases out quickly to keep up with demand.

At the time, web development as an industry didn’t exist and it was so new and exciting they just wanted to do that.

Now, the situation is very different, and we’ve gone from a handful of “enthusiasts” to a large group of semiprofessionals, the expectations should in my view adjust to the same expectations as other similarly regarded groups.