Sure it is. However you don't have to learn all of it.
I never learned much about Swing, AWT, JSP, JSF, EJB, Struts, Spring, Hibernate and all that crap. I tried them out at some point, but eventually I had the common sense to just say no.
You're basically comparing a language with the entire ecosystem of another. I remember trying to make MOD files play in Turbo Pascal, which left me with about 200k of memory for whatever else I wanted to do. I remember trying to read BMP files and because I had no available libraries, I had to implement the functionality by my own (and forget about GIFs or Jpegs). I remember trying to create a window with a button in Windows 3.11 and for some reason whatever I did was freezing my computer, so I had to reboot all over again, until finally giving up in agony.
I know at least one man that gave up on programming when the transition to Windows happened, because Borland Pascal was so goddamn awful for anything not involving a text interface running in 286 real mode - that it left that man with the impression that programming was not for him.
Yes, you can go from 0 to "knowing turbo pascal" in a short time. However that doesn't mean much, when in that same time you can accomplish so much more in a modern environment, even if you end up just scratching the surface.
I never learned much about Swing, AWT, JSP, JSF, EJB, Struts, Spring, Hibernate and all that crap. I tried them out at some point, but eventually I had the common sense to just say no.
You're basically comparing a language with the entire ecosystem of another. I remember trying to make MOD files play in Turbo Pascal, which left me with about 200k of memory for whatever else I wanted to do. I remember trying to read BMP files and because I had no available libraries, I had to implement the functionality by my own (and forget about GIFs or Jpegs). I remember trying to create a window with a button in Windows 3.11 and for some reason whatever I did was freezing my computer, so I had to reboot all over again, until finally giving up in agony.
I know at least one man that gave up on programming when the transition to Windows happened, because Borland Pascal was so goddamn awful for anything not involving a text interface running in 286 real mode - that it left that man with the impression that programming was not for him.
Yes, you can go from 0 to "knowing turbo pascal" in a short time. However that doesn't mean much, when in that same time you can accomplish so much more in a modern environment, even if you end up just scratching the surface.