I didn’t say that everyone is an idiot. I implied that gate keeping is useful as a first pass against people who are unlikely to have the drive to keep going when they experience difficulty.

When I was a kid, docs were literally a book. If you asked for help and didn’t cite what you had already tried / read, you’d be told to RTFM.

Python has several problems. Its relative import system is deranged, packaging is a mess, and yes, on its face needing to run a parallel copy of the interpreter to pip install something is absurd. I still love it. It’s baked into every *nix distro, a REPL is a command away, and its syntax is intuitive.

I maintain that the relative ease of JS – and more powerfully, Node – has created a monstrous ecosystem of poorly written software, with its adherents jumping to the latest shiny every few months because this time, it’s different. And I _like_ JS (as a frontend language).