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I saw this same attitude on a Haskell shop - "we write UIs in Haskell to prevent hiring script kiddies". Turns out Haskell coders with 20y of experience on comp
by herval 5y ago
I saw this same attitude on a Haskell shop - "we write UIs in Haskell to prevent hiring script kiddies". Turns out Haskell coders with 20y of experience on completely non-visual workloads are terrible at UI/UX, to the point of dismissing the work of building the UI as "a lesser concern".
- jokethrowaway 5y agoThat's orthogonal to the discussion. You would anyway need UX designers for that, the issue is leaving that to the developers. I do my own design sometimes but when I implement a well designed design by a real designer the end result is years light ahead
- hitekker 5y agoDevelopers sneering at other developers is relevant to a discussion about gatekeeping.