> Personally I have the impression that many web programmers, especially those who has never worked with anything other than the web, are ignorant of the existe

> Personally I have the impression that many web programmers, especially those who has never worked with anything other than the web, are ignorant of the existence of other branches of programming. I see this again and again in the articles that show up here. Occasionally, mobile apps are acknowledged (although they usually mentioned when the author is trying to make a point about trivial social media apps). > I have a feeling that most of complexity in web programming is incidental. It's a result of how poorly the web is designed as a platform. Of course it's very successful commercially but from a technical standpoint it isn't good. It seems that most of the technical challenges that people run into in this field can be divided into two categories: * Needing to accomplish something difficult by developing, implementing, or otherwise employing novel techniques, algorithms, data structures, automation, etc. * Needing to hack around poorly designed or obsolete software, such as CSS hacks to get older versions of IE to render a page element correctly.