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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by singingboyo on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:51PM (#15286973)
>Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues.

That's true of most modern development. It might be more painful on the web, I wouldn't know, but systems programming is not really any different.

Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by scriptkiddy on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#15287678)
I think the only real difference is that, generally speaking, systems programming standards and best practices don't change weekly. Or, maybe they do. I don't work in that field professionally.