Popular Elitism In Programming

I recently stumbled upon several comments from a submission on Reddit of an author who had a hard time installing NodeJS in their system. I never had any problem installing NodeJS, but those comments highlighted something that I've also seen happening offline. It's a trend of people ignoring the perspective of those who are not like them.

When you start programming, it's p revalent to have thoughts like this: To be good at "y", I had to learn "x". Therefore, to be good at "y", you have to learn "x" too. Otherwise, you're automatically bad at "y".

In this case, "y" represents a broader field of knowledge and "x" is a technology or specific technique within that realm.

Unlike other fields such as medicine and civil engineering, in most countries, software programming is not regulated. Each programmer follows a very specific and unregulated path when learning how to program. The set of technologies and techniques the programmer learns in that path is unique to themselves. The route includes being immersed in specific technologies from tutorials, inheriting the tooling of their mentors, or using the same techniques of the peers within the communities they participate.

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