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I recently had a conversation with an "absolute beginner" and it was a stark reminder just how much knowledge I take for granted. It really is extremely challen

• bigDinosaur 4y ago
  I find most of what I do in web dev to be trivial to the point of mind-numbing. People smarter than me from different fields try to do what I do and often have far more difficulty than I'd expect. Job security for me until the ML engineers work out I can probably be mostly replaced by a smarter templating engine!
  • jb3689 4y ago
    Modern web development is dumbed down by shared APIs abstracting most of the hard problems into patterns (arguably a good thing as there is way more consistency in web dev than infrastructure), but the concepts are still quite complex. Heck, React alone is a fairly complex piece of software that 90% of its users take completely foregranted let alone understand why it became a popular choice. Low-level front end is no joke
    • spoils19 4y ago
      It's no surprise that low level frontend is infinitely more performant, accessible and easier to maintain than framework obscured nonsense of this generation.
• tmpz22 4y ago
  It devolves into “here’s this really dumb thing that we deal with, oh and this stupid thing is to deal with Y” - it’s really hard to be cynical with trying to break down the layers of abstraction and how they came to be.