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Web development is like an entry point for programming these days, the lowest hanging fruit if you will. I would not exactly call anyone who does exclusively we

Web development is like an entry point for programming these days, the lowest hanging fruit if you will. I would not exactly call anyone who does exclusively web development "senior". It's like being a nurse - I suppose you can become a senior nurse, but you're not going to be a doctor. There's only so much you can progress professionally in web development, and each new stack gets easier to pick up, almost no challenge, patterns repeat and boredom sets in. I started from website development, then went to enterprise web application development and now moving on to data engineering (data mining, machine learning).

mrrrgn 12y ago
"Web development is like an entry point for programming these days" Web development is just a _type_ of development. You're creating a hierarchy where none aught to exist. I've known many system programmers who said the same thing about data engineering: "what kind of a lame made up job is that? They write Python and SQL queries, wow, that's barely programming." It's all non-sense. You can employ techniques which vary over a wide range of sophistication to create web pages, embedded systems, or ETL pipelines. There is no clear cut hierarchy. source: Have worked as a web dev, data warehouse engineer, and release engineer.