"Waste" and "one year" are horrible assumptions behind this question.
What about "wasting" 4 years of high school and "wasting" a few years of college? Why should someone with an idea be hampered by wasting this time? One year is nothing, and even if it were a long time, it's not a "waste" -- you come out of it with a skill that is needed today, ie if you want to be part of the technical side of the company you wish to found.
Secondly, a mere one year of study is not going to result in a skilled practitioner. You will be able to make prototypes.
Digging a little deeper:
> *It's a fact"
No, it isn't. FE development is still not a "mature" space and Wix and the like only offer rather trivial customizations to a well-defined and constrained environment. What you describe as FE development is really content creation and styling, not "development".
Now that I've poo-poo'd the thought, in counterpoint do you know about kintone and the like? There's an entire ecosystem of no-code app development systems out there already. Some of them probably qualify as "mature".
What about "wasting" 4 years of high school and "wasting" a few years of college? Why should someone with an idea be hampered by wasting this time? One year is nothing, and even if it were a long time, it's not a "waste" -- you come out of it with a skill that is needed today, ie if you want to be part of the technical side of the company you wish to found.
Secondly, a mere one year of study is not going to result in a skilled practitioner. You will be able to make prototypes.
Digging a little deeper:
> *It's a fact"
No, it isn't. FE development is still not a "mature" space and Wix and the like only offer rather trivial customizations to a well-defined and constrained environment. What you describe as FE development is really content creation and styling, not "development".
Now that I've poo-poo'd the thought, in counterpoint do you know about kintone and the like? There's an entire ecosystem of no-code app development systems out there already. Some of them probably qualify as "mature".