• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    A significant percentage of developers regard frontend dev as a branch of the Arts, and therefore not “proper” software engineering.

    I once had a fresh grad Junior complain to me about being given a frontend ticket, because they wanted to be writing Real Code and apparently thought they were too good to learn how to change the margin on a div.

    • Ethan@programming.dev
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      7 hours ago

      Saying “front end is not proper software engineering” is bullshit but at the same time if you hire someone to write code and then ask them to write CSS I can understand being frustrated.