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Israel Muñoz

It's important to consider if the market will saturate.
Depending on where you check, currently there are over half a million open positions for developers, and there were only over 60K CS graduates last year.
Add another... what? 60K for bootcamps and self-learners and we're still very far away from a market saturation.

Now, imagine all of the sudden half a million people learn to code. How many new companies will be created as well, that will require more developers?

A lot of industries are becoming IT, banking being a prime example! Also, everything is becoming "smart", so IoT will need a lot of developers.
So I don't think there will be market saturation for the next 20 - 30 years... if ever, because remember even though is a field that pays well, not everyone likes computers or likes programming, so there's that as well!