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Ask HN: The collapse of web programming jobs

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Re: Ask HN: The collapse of web programming jobs

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It’s a game developer saying his kind of skills will be in demand while “those other” skills won’t be. I have no idea what will happen, but color me skeptical on this take. If for no other reason there’s not a lot of detail on why. Specifically why does web programming get easier but game programming does not? Why wouldn’t all programming get gradually easier. In any case I do think you do yourself a disservice if yo…

His point isn't that web development is or will be so easy that it will be easy to hire for and thus not in demand. His point is that, most of people who work on "web" code do pointless busywork or just don't work very hard. He believes that this situation will fix itself up eventually, when economics of this amount of waste will become untenable (e.g. when big tech will stop making easy money and will have to actually look at costs).

Re: Ask HN: The collapse of web programming jobs

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Aren’t game programmers just using something like unity and writing scripts? I feel like that’s probably getting automated away. At the end of the day video games are a corporate beast that prints money. Indie games are like 1% and most people including me have never played them and don’t want to. Very few are actually making unity or “game engines” from the ground up, like Jon Blow.

> Aren’t game programmers just using something like unity and writing scripts? Hahaha wow. It’s like saying: “Aren’t web programmers just using something like chrome and writing scripts?”

the whole thing was meant to be sarcastic lol sorry
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