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You're just seeing the massive glut resulting from the training and staffing trying to capitalize on enteprises going web-based to try and reduce employee costs.
There's a lot of jobs in backend systems and services that, while networked, have nothing to do with the web. They tend to go to more experienced, specialized engineers. -
web has really come a LONG way in terms of making interfaces and front ends *just* the way you want them.
and if you're working ever green browsers only, you can afford to stay as far as fucking possible away from all the bullshit they call "transpilers" like babel and all that shit (more like transpilesofshit) that come with "helpful" things like instructions to install 5 god damn GB of dependancies, some of which always fail because of some stupid fucking path issue or dumbfuck node ver conflict. have 700 fucking critical vulnerabilities, will e-beg you ON The FUCKING CONSOLE to donate to projects, will be fussy like a god damn child and take a fucking hour to get the configs right because everyone who makes this shit apparently was born believing convention is for retards and why not throw out all docs or standards and let anyone do "anything!" instead of having some sensible fucking defaults.
but plain js and modern css are something to behold sometimes..from a distance. -
@Wisecrack Thankyou for such a delightful rant. Totally agree with you on the console e-beg point... It's so fucking ridiculous
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Is it me or is Software Development basically just Web Development?
I don't hate web development, in fact, I'm learning to become a web dev myself, but everywhere I look, everyone is a web developer.
When looking for a job all the requirements describe skills that are commonly associated with a web developer role despite the title saying Software Developer, all the developer communities I visit are filled with web developers and web dev topics, any topics pertaining to other fields of software development are close to non-existent, and when I go looking into resources for learning the Web Development courses and paths are much more well-supported than other fields.
At first, I was thinking of becoming an Android dev than maybe later learn some web dev but it looks like it would be a better idea to become a web developer since it would be much easier to ingratiate myself into the communities, find resources, communicate with other developers, find a job and I could even use the web dev skills to make mobile apps or apps outside of the web.
Should I stick with Web Dev or continue learning Android?
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