This advice is as good as someone saying &quot;please don&#x27;t learn to play music&quot;.<p>Not only is is bad advice since there is obviously value in learning to play music even though you are never going to become a professional musician.<p>But saying don&#x27;t learn to code it&#x27;s like saying &quot;please don&#x27;t learn this category of language which will make you able to communicate with the very ecosystem that is increasingly dominating your life.<p>It&#x27;s like saying. &quot;Please be illiterate in the most important language you can learn besides your native one for the future&quot;<p>In Denmark there is an expression &quot;fagidiot&quot; meaning idiot of their trade. I.e. people who are so puritan about what they do that any mistake is considered almost fatal.<p>It&#x27;s like going to the movies with your friends from the army who can&#x27;t enjoy a war movie because a gun doesn&#x27;t really sound like that or you can&#x27;t fire that many rounds of your M-16.<p>The probper advice is of course&#x27; &quot;Please learn everything you consider interesting, and keep learning even if you suck at it and will never become a professional. Learning something means growing as a person.&quot;