Here's an idea to improve this site: make the texts searchable somehow. Ctrl+F -> "JavaScript" shouldn't yield 0 results.
It's a png.
And he's suggesting for it not to be.
Developer Roadmaps
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this would come as news to a large group of people, including myself. I've only ever imagined a front end developer working on the web.
Another large group of people has been doing frontend before Web existed.
Meanings change. I think what you mean would be called an application or GUI programmer today.
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#103These lists are so depressing. Is there any other career where people are expected to know 100 things just to be an employee at the bottom of the food chain? I won't be surprised if it is harder to be a Full Stack Developer than to be a CEO of a multi-national corporation. Looks like we are pushing everything to Developers. Developers of the future are going to need a fulltime pyschologist to cope with this ever incr…
As a long time systems/backend C++/Python programmer it took me 6 months to get very comfortable with this TypeScript/NPM/Vue/Vuex/Bootstrap/Webpack/Linters/Formatters stack and create a pretty complex SPA. A lot of stuff, true, but nothing particularly challenging. I would say the hardest part is CSS, but using a framework like Bootstrap and then googling the little problems "how best to X in CSS" usually works.
You learnt all that without any previous background in JavaScript, HTML, HTTP etc? That is impressive if that was the case. Very impressive.
CSS is hard. Even for people who have been doing it for decades. I am one of those people who can do whatever can be done on Bootstrap, but from time to time, I still struggle with CSS. It is getting better these days because browsers are co-operating and don't have their own flavour of CSS just to break other browsers.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
All doctors, lawyers and real engineers I know only focus on one aspect. They are specialists. I know lawyers who specialises in rape cases, conveyancing, ligitation, but I have never met a lwayer who is expected to solve a rape case today and register a bond tomorrow. Same with doctors. They specialise and only focus on one domain. I was talking about skills when I included CEO, not about risk. When there is lots of…
I'm always impressed at my primary care doc's breadth of knowledge. Whatever the topic (knee injury, heart rate, asthma...), he has working knowledge at easy recall, which he augments by consulting electronic reference materials during appointments—all while staying engaged with the patient (me). This is all in the context of a standard physical, and often the subjects (such as the knee injury) haven't been mentioned…
Is he a GP or a Specialist? From what I know, the list of best Doctors is full of specialists, not generalists. I am yet to hear someone recommending a General Practitioner because they have broader knowledge. It is always Specialists who are focused on one domain and one domain only. Not saying specialists don't have knowledge about other things medical-related. They do but their knowledge is limited. Just like my knowledge about firewalls and networking is limited because I focused on development.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frontend roadmap completly ignores everything that isn't a Web browser. So no Qt, wxWidgets, Android, iOS, WPF, Forms, UWP, WinUI, GNOME, KDE, ...
Except Android/iOS, everything you listed is dead or dying. No sane person would pick anything but Electron for a desktop app today, unless you are in a particularly high performance domain (CAD/Graphics/Video/...)
Are you kidding me? There are many reasons to pick a non-electron platform without the need for particularly high performance. Android/iOS are good examples of the reasons why. There's just so much to be had by integrating with the OS and the environment that the user uses your tool in. Electron is great for a prototype or as a way to get your feet wet in improving the desktop experience. The best user experiences will always be founded on the native technologies of the target platform.
Edit: spelling errors
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a long time systems/backend C++/Python programmer it took me 6 months to get very comfortable with this TypeScript/NPM/Vue/Vuex/Bootstrap/Webpack/Linters/Formatters stack and create a pretty complex SPA. A lot of stuff, true, but nothing particularly challenging. I would say the hardest part is CSS, but using a framework like Bootstrap and then googling the little problems "how best to X in CSS" usually works.
You learnt all that without any previous background in JavaScript, HTML, HTTP etc? That is impressive if that was the case. Very impressive. CSS is hard. Even for people who have been doing it for decades. I am one of those people who can do whatever can be done on Bootstrap, but from time to time, I still struggle with CSS. It is getting better these days because browsers are co-operating and don't have their own fl…
I knew basic JavaScript/HTML, but it was 2006 level, when I played a bit with jquery, so I knew about ids/classnames from back then.
My SPA does use HTTP/WebSocket, it's served with nginx, uses a postgres database, but this is backend stuff.
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#107These lists are so depressing. Is there any other career where people are expected to know 100 things just to be an employee at the bottom of the food chain? I won't be surprised if it is harder to be a Full Stack Developer than to be a CEO of a multi-national corporation. Looks like we are pushing everything to Developers. Developers of the future are going to need a fulltime pyschologist to cope with this ever incr…
I don't think these are really excessive. You could probably learn much of each stack by essentially using personal projects as excuses to use these technologies and touch at least half or one third of each list each go. For example, "write a poker card playing website that saves your hand when you press a button" will get you a bunch of frontend, backend, and database.
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#108Great content. Lots of typos
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Frontend roadmap completly ignores everything that isn't a Web browser. So no Qt, wxWidgets, Android, iOS, WPF, Forms, UWP, WinUI, GNOME, KDE, ...
Except Android/iOS, everything you listed is dead or dying. No sane person would pick anything but Electron for a desktop app today, unless you are in a particularly high performance domain (CAD/Graphics/Video/...)
If they don't have any respect for their users I guess.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believe me as well, doing frontend native and Web UIs since mid-90s, including digital agencies. Plenty of companies are doing greenfield native UIs, including desktop. Mobile is desktop as well, just a matter of hardware form factor.
Mobile is “not just like desktop” unless you’re using a cross platform framework and even then you have different constraints - unreliable network connections, different screen sizes and interactions, you have to be more mindful of power and memory usage, dealing with app stores and review processes, etc. But its really not hard to look at job boards or where the money is going both from internal and external investm…
A tablet with keyboard is a desktop.
A laptop with wireless connectivity is a desktop.
Anything with a pluggable keyboard and screen is a desktop.
Something that many fail to grasp.