29 ms·
Can you please explain? Are you saying all software development outside of the web is "niche"?
by somebehemoth 11mo ago
Can you please explain? Are you saying all software development outside of the web is "niche"?
- theshrike79 11mo agoNiche 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 11mo agoNon web programming is not niche by any definition of the word niche.
- simonw 11mo agoNot 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 11mo agoI 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.