Yes web dev is like training as an electronic engineer and designing traffic light relays. When you thought you would be designing quantum computers or some such.

It's a shame because the original "extreme programming" had some good ideas before the conslutants took over.

I recently had to write some code in a non-lisp language. I found all the random syntax very annoying. Parens are easy with a good editor.

From my experience at the time. In the beginning was extreme programming. Take all the things that work and turn the volume to 11.

Then the corporate conslutants got involved and turned it into a train wreck.

Early on computer programming was mistakenly thought to be a low skill task like typing. Thus it was seen as women's work. It rapidly became clear that this was not the case, and the number of women declined. There was a brief resurgence as word got out that salaries were high, but again there was a big decline when people realized that it was actually hard work.

In my several decades in computers, very few women actually stayed in hard core programming and design. The vast majority migrated into HR, project office, CIO's harem, etc.

Once women realize what programming actually involves they exit in droves. This is no more due to discrimination than the fact that very few oil rig workers are women.

I like the whitespace but I always seem to guess wrong with python. How do you get the length of a string? That would be string.length() of course. Wrong! The whole damn language is like this.

It is so sad that these days calling people out on their bull**** is "offensive". If you want to succeed your first priority has to be to what is true. You need honesty and rigor, and people need to stop taking offense as if it amounts to something.

Save money and learn to invest - which is harder than it looks - because sooner than you think you will be an old guy with out of date skills.