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Does all the hate have to do with sexiness? To many people, backend and infrastructure work is sexy. They would happily get their hands dirty and spend insane
by ht85 7y ago
Does all the hate have to do with sexiness?
To many people, backend and infrastructure work is sexy. They would happily get their hands dirty and spend insane amounts of time debugging mind-boggling issues as long as they happen server-side.
Frontend work on the other hand is not, it seems. Maybe that's because the biggest problem of high quality frontend development is to figure out how to deal with users (who most deveopers seem to abhor), and how to navigate the, say... complicated circumstances that are browsers.
Maybe building something that has to work in an environment you can't control is just a little too stressful for most devs?
Personally I really don't care. I love doing great architectural work, but in the end I'm all about expertise and I don't discriminate. If I have to step-debug inside webpack plugins or understand Safari CORS handling quirks, so be it. I'm a software engineer, but to me sexiness is in relentlessly looking for an edge, happy customers and signed contracts.