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Re:Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Fr... by wccrawford on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:47AM (#14147038)
As a fullstack dev, it amuses me when my underlings claim that backend is hard and they want to learn it. They're already doing front-end. (And yes, we're working them towards more and more backend, and even mobile.)

It's just different, IMO. Programming is programming, but different specialties have different things you need to worry about.

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Re:Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Fr... by H1Supreme on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:31AM (#14147545)
Absolutely. I've been doing "frontend" work before it was even a term (ie. html tables for layout), and it's still the #1 thorn in my side. Even with all the tools available, developing a functional, aesthetically pleasing GUI is not an easy task.

Plus, organizing your code so it's not a 15-nested-div mess with inline CSS just to make the damn thing look right.

It's probably why most of my personal projects have a CLI, and that's it.

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