Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?

Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by casper345 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:20AM (#18856056)

Right now yes, in the near future, probably not. As automation and better services come out, website development will be one of the first jobs to be replaced by this. Although services like Wordpress, Wix, have their problems, they get better and better every day. In the future, no one will be coding websites/not a viable career option (people may just code on the side website for really niche things)

It is a great launchpad to do other programming besides web dev. Go into web dev, because there is a lot of cool tech in it and lessons. But learn other technologies as well that will not be replaced by automation.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by openbasic on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:32AM (#18856181)

I've been hearing this argument since CoffeeCup, HighPowerSites and Dreamweaver were still a thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by vanadium on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:27AM (#18856762)

thegrid.io was (yet) another flame-out associated with the same line of thinking. The intricacies of performant web development are quite a bit more nuanced than a lot of people aiming to automate it would like to acknowledge.

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Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice? by nfRfqX5n on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:35AM (#18856214)

i still think engineering will become more and more saturated to where it's a blue collar job, but don't see website builders ever replacing websites until AI is at a level where it's replacing humans everywhere else anyway

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