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Have you ever deployed PHP to shared hosting? Seriously, you drag and drop the site in your FTP client. Deployed. This is how the majority of the PHP world does it. So it's completely unsurprising that someone from a PHP only background finds deploying other technologies harder.

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Sure i have. As most web developers (i imagine) i started writing my first page in PHP, hardcoded passwords in a .php file which did also output HTML, it was "awesome" :P

Deploying PHP also means updating database schemas or configuring .htaccess or configuring apache or updating php modules. Deploying a django app can be as easy as upload + restart django. Everyone doing a little bit of development should have no problem automating that tiny bit.

I don't disagree that everyone doing web development should understand migrations and the server stack. And yet it's completely unsurprising to me that a guy still in high school is unaware or ignorant to it, regardless of when he started out.

Yes, ok, he is 18, that's true, so my post is probably a bit harsh. But still, if he keeps that attitude he'll be 30 or 40 and use Django in a time where everyone has moved on to new stuff(tm).

Age isn't the only issue. He is surrounded by other teenagers and probably has no peers to help guide him in real life.

I think he's the kind of young developer that when he moves on to university or the workplace he'll rapidly broaden his skills.

I am totally confused how this comment is even relevant. You have literally no basis for it, and it is not even remotely true.

I am basing it on the influence a person's environment has on them. At the workplace or university, a person is more likely to encounter influential peers and mentors.

Telling me a developer is likely to get the same kind of experience working bit jobs as a contractor in high school as they are either doing the same while pursing a CS degree, or working in a development team is preposterous.

Edit: I just realised you're the OP. Add "gaining some maturity" to the things you'll get from the above.

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