Indeed. The purpose of craft is to create beautiful, functional things for people to use. The purpose of art is to create elite consumer goods through which the socially privileged can both advertise and justify their elite status.

And let's not forget the cultivation of colossal egos.

Really, because I feel like "craft" and "art" are highly subjective terms. How is the iterative process of creating perfect code any different from the iterative process of sculpting the perfect sculpture?

Haven't you ever looked at a code or software project and gotten that distinct feeling of awe that arises in you when you realize you are looking at something high quality, something that required real craftsmanship to make? That is art.

It most recently happened to me when I discovered Vue.js. As a diehard angular user, Vue was just so clean, so simple, so beautiful - a breath of fresh air in a warzone of competing monolithic javascript frameworks.

That's amazing craftmanship you're admiring.

Art has no function. Craft has function.

The primary function of art (it may have others, but this function is what defines it as art) is to create a response in the person experiencing it; it is not without function.

Or rather, art's primary function is expressive or communicative, while craft has other primary functions.

Can't craftsmanship have artistic flair? The result of creative emotional expression while crafting?

> Art has no function.

Can you name an art piece that has no function?

So architecture cannot be art?