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Re:Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering... by jraph on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:13AM (#28478340)
It's funny because backend and frontend also have meanings in compilers. You could answer "No, frontend, obviously" and be accurate.
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Re:Using “Frontend” or “Backend” to describe the Engineering... by heisenbit on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:29AM (#28478419)
Let‘s keep this complicated please. Most code on back and frontend are written in something starting with ‚Java‘ which is compiled to an intermediate representation which is interpreted and on demand compiled to machine code which is interpreted and executed as micro-code.
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