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by arkitaip 1455 days ago
Web dev is in a state of shit where devs are pushed towards increasingly complex and fragile stacks. The fact that you're learning Vue, micro services, docker and god knows what else just to do front end is sad and doesn't reflect on your competence or ability.

Eventually you will learn this stack but unfortunately be forced to learn a new one fairly soon. That's the real challenge with web dev: are you ready to do old stuff in new ways because trends change so fast?
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sys_64738 1455 days ago
Agree with this web view. It’s a dumpster fire of absolute garbage peddled as engineering. Sprint planning validates it as there no time to highlight the garbage being generated under the guise of software development. The key skill for this work is efficient use of google and copy/paste. This is the end game of where this whole malaise has ended up.

I don’t know how software development recovers.

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Flankk 1455 days ago
The web has always been bad, just never quite so complex. The stacks are more complex and fragile and I would argue fragile because of the complexity. Most of these tools are intended to improve developer experience but I have yet to see evidence of that. I'm just glad I'm mostly working with C++ these days.
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