I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
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I Am Happy Not to Be a Web Developer Anymore
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#2I too remember when all my projects were greenfield, before my first burnout, when a less jaded me with better knees enjoyed the simpler times.
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#3I get the point the writer is making: web development is a mess. However, I also think that stepping off that treadmill can make one's impression of the field a bit skewed, because there is no longer an incentive of the writer to keep up with the nuances of the changes. Web frameworks do come and go, but they're also not that different from each other. New ones show up, but that doesn't mean that everyone flocks to them and disrupts everything.
The whole process is definitely still a mess and I am not trying to defend the chaos, but I think it probably appears a lot worse from the outside.
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#4I certainly agree that current front-end stacks are a house of cards.
On the other hand, though, not many developers get to focus mostly on new code. And generally, open source dependencies are going to be used, as it's considered wasteful to build everything from scratch.
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#5I get the point the writer is making: web development is a mess. However, I also think that stepping off that treadmill can make one's impression of the field a bit skewed, because there is no longer an incentive of the writer to keep up with the nuances of the changes. Web frameworks do come and go, but they're also not that different from each other. New ones show up, but that doesn't mean that everyone flocks to t…
I don't know man, I've seen frameworks rise, gain massive adoption and then be abandoned as everyone moves to the next hot thing.
I watched everyone adopt AngularJS and then have to migrated to Angular 2.0 and then everyone migrated to React. During this time, the backend folks wrote java services using SpringBoot and then migrated to SpringBoot and then when that wasn't abandoned, moved to SpringBoot.
Web development feels way too much like a hamster wheel to me.
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#6I agree. I started web development in 1997, started working professionally as a web developer in 2000, and just this past summer moved away from being a full-stack web developer to a different individual contributor programming role. Frankly I was happy to move away. Web development used to be fun, it isn't fun anymore. I'll keep an eye on the field and, if it ever moves back to a more sane development environment, I'll consider jumping back in.
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#7It has to be said, web dev got better when the Redmond Middle School science projects (Microsoft Internet Explorer and old Edge) went into the dustbin of history where they have long belonged.
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#8Web Scientists is new Science)
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#9Said everyone.
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#10If this POV resonates with you I encourage you to follow the work of progrium (Jeff Lindsay) who is actually trying to do something about it at pretty fundamental levels.
Wanix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFdtDKLI9o
Tech Thesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKZ15O7zeHY