Is front-end development having an identity crisis?

Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by egeozcan on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:56AM (#18325929)

The biggest problem is most companies hire by ticking boxes. On the other hand, a developer is a developer. Yes, it will take a while for them to adapt if you hire a "Ruby developer" to do, say, embedded systems, so yes, it makes sense to check for patterns, but trying to match a profile is a somewhat unreachable target and useless to begin with.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by Guthur on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:13AM (#18325985)

A developer is not just a developer. I've been in the industry for quite a while and life for quite a bit longer and I have just never found this sort of pluggability in developers or people in general.

If you want someone to write an etl script from SAP to salesforce you could probably trip over one in the street. But if you want someone to define a well thought out data model in 3rd normal form with versioned entities, property based testing coverage and full CICD pipeline you will have to search hard.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by aalleavitch on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:41AM (#18326120)

In my experience, a developer is a developer; given time and an internet connection you can fill in any knowledge gaps reasonably easily (even the kind you usually go to school for), but depending on specialization and experience you can have a project done in a week or you can have it done in half an hour.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by siquick on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:54AM (#18326162)

There's a lot of software projects that don't need 'a well thought out data model in 3rd normal form with versioned entities, property-based testing coverage and full CICD pipeline' out there.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by xamuel on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:34PM (#18328815)

9 times out of 10, the person applying 3rd normal form doesn't know what they're doing and ends up over-engineering the hell out of a project and making things much worse.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by dempseye on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:28AM (#18326299)

I have never seen property-based testing in the wild, to be honest.

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Re:Is front-end development having an identity crisis? by chilledheat on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:49AM (#18328456)

I know some of these words.

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