I switched careers at 33 (currently 35) from structural engineering to a full stack JS career after attending a bootcamp.
Reading your comment, I wish I was in the former group of learning to code early on, taking CS and SE courses in university, etc... I work feverishly to learn as much as I possibly can about networking, Linux, hardware, SQL, etc.. along with all the JS related topics I need to learn for my job.
I just wanted to add to the conversation by saying that there are people in the later group who really want to become well rounded and not just be JS developers.
Reading your comment, I wish I was in the former group of learning to code early on, taking CS and SE courses in university, etc... I work feverishly to learn as much as I possibly can about networking, Linux, hardware, SQL, etc.. along with all the JS related topics I need to learn for my job.
I just wanted to add to the conversation by saying that there are people in the later group who really want to become well rounded and not just be JS developers.