Goodbye Python: Embracing Backend Development After a Teaching Journey

Python was closely related to my teaching career.

I stopped teaching, and in this article, you can read why: Why I Stopped Teaching Programming After 3 Years: A Developer’s Journey

I can't learn everything

There is a lot I would learn, but the problem is that programming is becoming more difficult, and the ecosystems are getting bigger.

So I need to narrow my focus as much as possible and get really good at one thing. I believe this is the current trend in the market; companies don’t want generalists, they want specialists.

I felt tired

Working with Python and .NET at the same time became really overwhelming for me.

In the last few months of those three years, I felt that something needed to change.

What now?

I use Next.js for my personal projects because there are many libraries that make my life easier. I worked with .NET for a long time. Initially, I hated it and didn’t want to work with it.

However, I now see myself more as a backend developer than a frontend one. I find backend development more fun and interesting than frontend work.