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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by scrollaway on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:22AM (#19623296)
You can do frontend webdev and have a lot of fun.

First of all, stop using plain JS and move to Typescript. That'll fix most of your issues with the language itself.

Second, for what's fulfilling, it depends on what you're actually working on. If you're going to just make dynamic menus for a wordpress blog then yeah, your life is gonna be boring. But nowadays "frontend" can mean writing entire apps. My latest site (https://overframe.gg/) is a SPA in React+Typescript and I had a lot of fun writing it. The nitty-gritty of reverse engineering games, simulating calculations, etc; all these are still there.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by C1sc0cat on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:17AM (#19623551)
Its not the same as working at the real bleading edge though which is what the previous couple of posters meant.

I miss working on campus at CIT (Cranfield Uni) unfortunately the pay was abysmal - some realy cool work tough.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by krageon on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:37AM (#19631705)
While this does sound cool in a sort of abstract way, it doesn't honestly compare to work that is genuinely at the vanguard of human understanding. That's what the person you are replying to was getting at if I'm not mistaken.
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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by scrollaway on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:30AM (#19633181)
So I guess I'll just let GP be miserable in their choices then!

Take my post as advice on how to enjoy something that may not be your passion.

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Re:Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer... by krageon on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:44AM (#19633278)
> So I guess I'll just let GP be miserable in their choices then!

Neither I nor GP have said that they were unilaterally miserable, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

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