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This is without joke what I'm actually thinking about doing. I just can't get on with Javascript, and that's with 4 / 5 years of Vue development. I hate that I

by davzie 5y ago

This is without joke what I'm actually thinking about doing. I just can't get on with Javascript, and that's with 4 / 5 years of Vue development. I hate that I can't just come back to a project 6 months later and build it. Something always breaks. Everything feels super fragile. So I might just learn Go and stick to backend only and embrace all the things I spoke about hating in my post just so I can avoid Javascript. You can't win

mxuribe 5y ago
I was a web developer in the late 90s/early 2000s, then moved to low-level management...and over the years, i might touch a little script here or there, and maybe code up a boring website...but nothing needing such an expansive pipeline. Well, in the last 2 years or so, i've been interested (from an intellectual perspective) to start coding again...But, honestly, the cognitive load is enough that backend seems more straightforward for my brain now. (To clarify, i'm not s aying that backend work is easy, just that for me and my brain it seems more straightforward to tackle/learn.) Sure, nowadays browsers support css and javascriot far better than back in the day, but there's still seemingly so much to think about and do for front-end work that i'm moving more towards backend stuff...for now i'm just playing with stuff (sicne i do not do this anymore at my dayjob, and in fact haven't done it for over 15 yrs now), but if i lose my job or needed to drastically change my career (and head back to development), there's no way that i would enjoy the front-end...i would definitely choose the backend type of work. Maybe that's just me...but yeah, web dev (at least front-end) for me seems to have become insane.
potta_coffee 5y ago
I learned Go, switched to almost all backend work and infrastructure. Now I spend most of my time building infrastructure and tooling, and I couldn't be happier. I'm (or was?) a pretty competent front-end developer but I just can't do it anymore. I can still build a good front-end product if I need to, but I just can't get along with the new-school front-end guys that think they know everything and want to reinvent the wheel constantly.

by davzie 5y ago

mxuribe 5y ago

I was a web developer in the late 90s/early 2000s, then moved to low-level management...and over the years, i might touch a little script here or there, and maybe code up a boring website...but nothing needing such an expansive pipeline. Well, in the last 2 years or so, i've been interested (from an intellectual perspective) to start coding again...But, honestly, the cognitive load is enough that backend seems more straightforward for my brain now. (To clarify, i'm not s aying that backend work is easy, just that for me and my brain it seems more straightforward to tackle/learn.) Sure, nowadays browsers support css and javascriot far better than back in the day, but there's still seemingly so much to think about and do for front-end work that i'm moving more towards backend stuff...for now i'm just playing with stuff (sicne i do not do this anymore at my dayjob, and in fact haven't done it for over 15 yrs now), but if i lose my job or needed to drastically change my career (and head back to development), there's no way that i would enjoy the front-end...i would definitely choose the backend type of work. Maybe that's just me...but yeah, web dev (at least front-end) for me seems to have become insane.

potta_coffee 5y ago

I learned Go, switched to almost all backend work and infrastructure. Now I spend most of my time building infrastructure and tooling, and I couldn't be happier. I'm (or was?) a pretty competent front-end developer but I just can't do it anymore. I can still build a good front-end product if I need to, but I just can't get along with the new-school front-end guys that think they know everything and want to reinvent the wheel constantly.