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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Plus for the front most people use very unsafe languages and glued together frameworks (JavaScript, typescript, react, Vue etc), whereas on the backend we can use proper type-safe, compiled languages with better abstractions (rust, scala,...) with proper unit and integration tests.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

All the node.js backends reading this rn

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

And, while tested to extreme limits, somehow the end user still finds ways to break it, creating more things haphazardly stuffed in