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by dragonwriter 2196 days ago
> Maybe because there are no IDEs on servers

But IDEs on developer devices can remotely interface with servers, and how many developers ever have physical access to a server rather than using it remotely from a workstation?

As a developer (though not by education a computer scientist), the vast majority of the software I cause to be run on servers is triggered automatically by updates to git repositories, and most of the rest is done via web consoles. Sure, I know how to do more, and that's sometimes even relevant to my work in terms of scripting what happens in CI/CD pipelines, etc., but running software on servers directly isn't really a central job duty.

And for the more pure ops people for whom it is, they are even less likely to have jobs that looks for a CS background.