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by actsasbuffoon 3131 days ago
It’s true that slapping together a WordPress site doesn’t require much rigor, but that’s not what all web development is like. Building a site that can handle tens of millions of requests per day takes a lot of very rigorous work. Writing highly concurrent web services also requires a methodical mind.

Web development describes many different kinds of work. The work doesn’t get easier just because the end result is exposed via an HTTP endpoint.