alt Hacker NewsPeople learning how to do things is not gatekeeping. It seems that word has lost all meaning. This person still did not actually create anything.
If you have internet access, there was never any "gatekeeping". There have been free resources to learn web development for ages. Someone not wanting to put in the effort to learn to do something is not being "gatekept", they're just choosing not to learn to do something.
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ryandrake • today at 6:13 PM
Exactly. I hope the job piloting the airliner I’m sitting in was gatekept such that only people trained as pilots are allowed to do it!
Lowering the amount of effort required to accomplish some task is a good thing. Giving more people the ability to meet their own needs is a significant form of technological advancement.
This was the whole point of Visual Basic, years ago: ordinary people could build their own software. I am glad to see the same sort of thing happening once again.