I am a software engineer who works closely with a team of bioinformaticians. Your reply suggests you only have one side of the story. A bioinformatician is som

I am a software engineer who works closely with a team of bioinformaticians. Your reply suggests you only have one side of the story. A bioinformatician is someone who has quite serious programming skills on top of their biology knowledge. They are frequently bottlenecked by compute and so tend to have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms. They usually know 3 or more languages and are no strangers to databases, version control, containers, et cetera. And yet I recognize the feeling from the article: they get stuck in the heap of complexity we (as an industry) have created around a bog standard web frontend. The majority of us are not doing rocket science - the applications I’m working on today do similar things to the ones I worked on five years ago. Yet somehow, the ‘how’ of it, the whole Rube Goldberg machine, tends to get more convoluted every passing year. I often get the feeling a nonzero percentage of it is introduced purely so web developers can feel they’re “real engineers” whatever that may be. There’s nothing to prove, now stop piling on junk and reinventing wheels.