Comment by bgwalter

That is the mindset that the industry has drilled into programmers from 2015-2024 (everyone must learn how to code).

This worked for OSS corporate employees who pretended to promote equity while always keeping their own leadership positions.

Since the layoffs, corporations stole all open source code via "AI" and are now selling it back to the authors while humiliating them ("you have been gatekeeping!").

Totalitarian projects like CPython, whose "leaders" jumped on any corporate bandwagon and have yelled "gatekeeping" on any occasion, are now guarding the leftover places and the GitHub lock icons have increased exponentially (many of them have been fired).

As you say, all of this is just self-serving propaganda and there has never been any real gatekeeping in programming. especially when compared to law or medicine.