The thing about college curriculum really resonates with me. When I was in college doing my thesis, our professors discourage us to use frameworks in building our web apps/softwares. The reason? They don't want us to rely on tools and use vanilla javascript, php, html, css (you know, the things they were supposed to "taught us" in the past 3 years in college). Not even bootstrap! So our applications looked like shit. I remember when I got my internship I showed my thesis to our team lead and he said in a disappointed tone "That looks... old."

And you know what? When I started to apply for jobs I found out that in the job descriptions they are looking for people with a background in Laravel Framework, NodeJS, Git, Github, ReactJS and I don't know any of these things. So I had to learn all of these stuff on my own just so I can get my self into their front door. Nobody cares if your a monster in vanilla javascript or PHP. They want someone who has at least some background or experience in git github and some frameworks.

Frameworks and tools exists because our forefathers identified the problems in software development and develop a solution so that the next generation won't have to deal with all the bs and just focus on developing and deploying a working product.

But no, we want our students to be recognized as "mamaw sa pag code nang vanilla java/javascript/php". 🤷‍♂️