• traches@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.

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      2 months ago

      In particular, frontend has to interact with humans, which is one hell of a messy API.

      • Mose13@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Can confirm. I’m a full time frontend developer and humans don’t have very well defined APIs