Re:Why is modern web development so complicated?
by commandlinefan on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:45PM
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> they are not considered “real” developers by the rest of the community
Well, a lot of them aren’t - until recently, a lot of front-end developers were actually graphic artists who were more skilled in photoshop than software development (not to knock that skill, it’s a useful one!). It doesn’t help that 23-year-old MBA “unicorn startup” founders have bought into this pipe dream model of software development where a couple of eggheads in the unlit server room develop algorithms that the $10/hour mcweb-developers cut-and-paste into beautiful templates.
Well, a lot of them aren’t - until recently, a lot of front-end developers were actually graphic artists who were more skilled in photoshop than software development (not to knock that skill, it’s a useful one!). It doesn’t help that 23-year-old MBA “unicorn startup” founders have bought into this pipe dream model of software development where a couple of eggheads in the unlit server room develop algorithms that the $10/hour mcweb-developers cut-and-paste into beautiful templates.