Agreed. I’ve experienced this in different programming domains.

A mere ten or so years ago I only wrote firmware in C and MacOS apps in objective-c. That was my world and it was all I knew, and all I’ve done for a long time.

Then something happened. Small startup. Website needs urgent fix and the web guy is MIA, so what the hell, I can take a stab at it.

Literally had no idea where to start. I didn’t know about npm, minified transpiling, much less actual testing and deployment. Could not make sense of anything anywhere. Hopelessly lost. I even grepped the JavaScript for “void main()” out of desperation. Just ridiculous