[pnathan]

"Oh cute, a web dev. You've just reinvented 1975, but this time without algorithmic analysis. Would you like a pat on the head?"

/snark

Bluntly, web devs often screw up in the fundamentals of algorithmic operations and data. Web dev comes out of the horrific slap-it-up-i-tude of the HTML/Perl days of the mid-90s, and its tooling is still incredibly shoddy compared to desktop development. And the really fun part is? Web devs don't even get it. They often think they are the top of the food chain, with the best tools ever built. I still can't even find a tool to match VB 5's capabilities.

[LnxPrgr3]

I think you over-estimate the average skill of non-Web devs, and over-estimate the attention paid to performance even by groups who probably know what they're doing.

One example, from Chrome: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromiu...

[pnathan]

It's less about skill and more about culture, knowledge, and the valuation of wisdom/knowledge within that culture.

but, yeah, I've seen some awful non-web code. :)