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

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Nikola Stojaković

This is something I've been thinking about for a long time too. Whenever you see some bootcamps or courses on the web it's almost exclusive about web development, rarely about game development and pretty rarely about other fields.

I agree with the most comments here - three most important reasons for this are;

  1. Lower barrier to entry - it's pretty easy to open up your favorite editor and create HTML page, compared to downloading a compiler, writing the code which does bunch of other things under the hood and compiling to see some text being shown on the screen of your first game (although making a game is in my opinion much more satisfying experience than making a website, even though it's much harder)
  2. Market - game market is huge but pretty overcrowded these days and someone will always need a website, no matter if it's just a personal web page or a full-fledged corporate web application so I doubt there will ever be shortage of jobs for web developers
  3. Ease of sharing your work with the world - copy your work on the CodePen or any similar application, get the link and boom, you just shared your work, compared to sharing three different executables of your game (this is both, the fortune and the curse)