On: Ask HN: In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?

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> Some, probably a minority, of student web devs may get conditioned to reach for libraries for every problem they encounter

I teach an online web development course for a university as a side gig. Our students are forbidden from using any third party code, libraries, frameworks, etc. They have to do everything with native html, css, and JS.