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This is exactly why frontends are orders of magnitudes more difficult to build if equal quality standards are applied to both back and front ends. A front end

by mojuba 5y ago

This is exactly why frontends are orders of magnitudes more difficult to build if equal quality standards are applied to both back and front ends. A front end is a state machine that relies on a bunch of enormous framework layers. Give me an app, mobile or web, and I'll find a glitch or two in the first few minutes of using it. Backends on the other hand, like you said, only ever talk to other programs. And that means building a 100% correct and bug free backend system is not such a fantastical goal.

Banana699 5y ago
>Give me an app, mobile or web, and I'll find a glitch or two in the first few minutes of using it I find that a very strong claim, is it rhetorical or meant literally? If the latter, what can you find in (say) whatsapp* ? (*: aside from messages delaying or appearing out-of-write-order, which are probably backend bugs inevitably arising from its distributed nature)
- mojuba 5y ago
  I deleted WhatsApp a while ago so can't say right now. It is a pretty mature app that hasn't added big features in years I think, so I wouldn't expect a lot of bugs in it, but take a look at their version history on App Store, there are plenty of purely bug fix releases only this year.