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> That's what the C devs said about all the people learning Java. That's not a great argument here. Web development is much more of a continuous spectrum. Prog

> That's what the C devs said about all the people learning Java. That's not a great argument here. Web development is much more of a continuous spectrum. Programming platforms are designed to hide the the layers beneath to a large degree. I'm not saying there aren't leaky abstractions! We use the term "full stack" for web developers, but people visualize this with layers, but for me it's a really wide list of items and not a very tall stack.

MattGaiser 6y ago
> but for me it's a really wide list of items and not a very tall stack. That is fair. You need a bit of many technologies to launch a website. I always interpreted full-stack to mean that you could launch a site on your own, from the database to the buttons and thus do not require a dedicated frontend, backend, or dba. But yes, that makes developers wide and not deep.