Correct. Learning a programming language is trivial. Far easier than a foreign language.

If we think of it in terms of learning a language, what matters is the grammar and ability to use it to struct prose to create a coherent story.

There’s also a lot of reuse which requires knowing what’s available. The closest analogy there is how music sampling is used.

The post didn’t ask for ethical requirements to be included in the advice.

Appending additional personal requirements turns the conversation towards one’s personal soapbox.

Yes. Investing is always worth it unless you have credit card debit.

Set it up to automatically invest into the lowest fee index fund your broker offers.

Quite the opposite.

The older you get the less clever it feels to point out the common mistakes of others

Because drinking “milk” from nuts and oats isn’t weird?

People have been drinking animal milk for thousands of years so the weird ones are those pretending some heavily processed industry process isn’t weird.