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You do know that system programming is a thing? Or that desktop applications are software too?

• simonw 1y ago
  I said "the majority of software development". Those are both relatively niche disciplines in 2025.
  • somebehemoth 1y ago
    Can you please explain? Are you saying all software development outside of the web is "niche"?
    • theshrike79 1y ago
      Niche as in for every one systems programmer there are dozens of people writing API Glue. By hours of work spent and lines of code produced the latter is in a whole different scale than systems programmers (which is a very badly designed term anyway).
      • somebehemoth 1y ago
        Non web programming is not niche by any definition of the word niche.
    • simonw 1y ago
      Not necessarily niche, but less common. Take a look at the JetBrains developer survey if you want some numbers: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2024/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2024/
      • skydhash 1y ago
        I have a much more close relation with other niches than with web programming, even if web programming is part of my core skill set. I mostly interact with a few sites daily, even though I spend some time there. But I spend a lot of time with software like xterm, emacs, calibre, cmus,... and more with tooling like make, bash. While I'm not working on those, I had to become quite familiar with their working to troubleshoot some bug. Emacs is more important to me than AWS and GitHub.