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> Front-end engineers are invariably the most important and skillful, and backend engineers really aren't valuable. Heh, that's interesting. I didn't see a who
by alecbz 5y ago
> Front-end engineers are invariably the most important and skillful, and backend engineers really aren't valuable.
Heh, that's interesting. I didn't see a whole lot of that on Twitter (though I kinda see what you mean), but I did know a senior engineer that referred to front-end engineers as "finger-painters".
I think both camps probably kinda looks down on the other a bit. (But I guess the frontend camp is louder on Twitter?)
- mekal 5y agoRegardless of what they think I'm still thankful for front-enders. CSS / UI-design/layout...people that enjoy that sorta thing are great because it means I don't have to do it. Maybe they feel the same way about backend work. Whatever, it all works out!
- daniel-cussen 5y agoYeah plus it is a sign of security. It is so much easier and more reasonable to trust a UI that is pixel-perfect throughout all transformations than a glitchy one (the glitch might be farther down the stack). It's just like trusting a bank with impeccable marble in the lobby over one with crappy construction, it tells you how thorough they are about everything else.