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> Apparently doing interesting stuff comes with a pretty hard penalty in terms of compensation. Yup, I'm trying to transition to web development strongly because of the much higher compensation and the ability to work remotely. I admit developing nonlinear curve fitting frameworks, working with laser physics and doing biomedical algorithms engineering was much more fun and fulfilling. However, it's far more appealing…
You can do frontend webdev and have a lot of fun. First of all, stop using plain JS and move to Typescript. That'll fix most of your issues with the language itself. Second, for what's fulfilling, it depends on what you're actually working on. If you're going to just make dynamic menus for a wordpress blog then yeah, your life is gonna be boring. But nowadays "frontend" can mean writing entire apps. My latest site (…
Re: Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
#61While this does sound cool in a sort of abstract way, it doesn't honestly compare to work that is genuinely at the vanguard of human understanding. That's what the person you are replying to was getting at if I'm not mistaken.