Comment by solatic

(I support licensing)

Licensing never happened because its effect is to reduce the size of the labor pool and restrict what the labor pool can do as individuals. Barring the very recent abberation of the glut of new grads and not enough junior positions, even without licensing, there haven't been enough engineers to fill all the open senior-level positions. Licensure would make that problem worse.

A licensure board would also get embroiled in political disputes over what is genuinely ethical. Python is a performance nightmare, should engineers be permitted to pick a language with known poor performance characteristics? Electron is a RAM hog and battery-killer, is it an ethical choice? So how could any Python or Electron shop support licensure?