While there is an insane amount of information readily available to become self-taught, people within the community often gatekeep, unduly criticize or by pure ego, are toxic toward those trying to learn.

I personally feel that there are reasons on both sides for the toxicity:

- An unknown unknowns problem that creates false confidence in junior devs that grate more established developers.

- A dev marketing ecosystem that rewards learning frameworks and not languages.

- Dev tooling that obfuscates in the name of developer friendliness/onboarding.

I'm sure there are others but just curious as to everyone's take.