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I noticed that for web developers "developers" is a synonym of "web developer". Being a non-web developer, I find this at the same time mildly amusing and offen

• BoingBoomTschak 2y ago
  This, some people recently forwarded a "tech pay" survey to all dev teams (ours does C++/Qt desktop software), and there was only (basically) "Frontend dev", "Backend dev" and "AI/ML dev" in the job list. It reminded me of that KotH skit "- So, are you Chinese or Japanese? - Huh, I come from Laos and... - Chinese, or Japanese?".
  • bitwize 2y ago
    Crooter: "So tell me about your work at XXX Robotics. Was it more front-end or back-end?" Me: "It was robot control software. It controlled a robot. Also I did some UI work, based on the same framework as the control software itself." Crooter: "Ah-huh, and which database did you use? Oracle? MySQL?"
• Xenoamorphous 2y ago
  I feel the opposite. Sometimes I feel non-web developers don’t consider web devs as “real devs”, esp. the frontend ones.
• chrsw 2y ago
  This is an extremely mild version of what it feels like to be a minority. Web developers are the most common type of developer. It is simply natural for them to equate "developers" and "software developers". Out of sight, out of mind. It's not a hostile thing, it's not something people necessarily want to do. But it still happens. It's a human thing.