• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    Front end and back end are different enough that you can really specialize in one or the other. They take very different mindsets. I know how to make css obey, I don’t know how to make sql performant. Its possible to have both, but not as well.

    For every front-end dev, you need 3 back-end guys and a designer.

    Programmers are not bad at our jobs, its just not a mature disclipline yet.

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      It’s not mature, because nobody let it mature.

      Programming is over 70 years old, that’s not a new discipline. Yet, the engineering in our industry is still abysmal. Countless reinvented wheels, nothing is ever finished, changes happen often enough for the sake of change, not progress.

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        That’s part of the nature of programming. Half-finished might be good enough. If you’ve made an awesome wheel but I need a kink in one of my spokes and yours doesn’t do that, making my own wheel might be cheaper than modding yours.

        OTOH, there’s nothing more frustrating than looking for a particular wheel, finding ten really great ones that collectively have the features you need, but individually aren’t good enough.

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          To stay in the analogy: usually we just want to transport things from a to b. It doesn’t matter, how we get there. So usually we begin with a road and start to cobble together a vehicle from barely fitting and functioning junk we find on the roadside.

          There’s hardly any stable surface to work on. And that’s extremely costly.

    • uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I don’t agree and I don’t disagree, but I thinkcontext matters a lot here. Some teams and codebases need deep knowledge, some don’t. Some nned sql performance, some don’t. Your conclusion is only true some of the time