I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.

An interesting read. Of course just an personal opinion as the author said, but I think he is correct in lots of his points.

I noticed that I think / feel like this myself sometimes, even while I’m a frontend dev myself.

Fortunately I’m in a nice team that values my frontend skills that all the other full stack/ Backend devs are missing.

Did you notice this bias / devaluing of the frontend work yourself?

  • lysdexic@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m a scientist, and “Not a real programming language” gives me big vibes of arguing that a thing is a science

    CSS is not a programming language. Neither is HTML.

    This, however does not take away from its importance or the skillsets and expertise required to use it effectively.

    What a weird belief: thinking the value they bring to a project is tied to whether they use programming languages or not. The majority of people working with programming languages are already bad at it. Why is it being used as a badge of honor?

    Is this a “living in glass houses” scenario?