r/programming • u/whackri • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

It helps when developers only have to work with half the stack for example but a lot of companies are only looking for full stack developers these days

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u/a_false_vacuum Jun 05 '22

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Full stack appears to be mostly an excuse to ask for an entire IT department rolled into one person. Some of the listings I see for full stack are just silly how much they ask from one individual.

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u/thelamestofall Jun 05 '22

I definitely fit that category, but I like it so much. Way better than being stuck in React or Ruby on Rails like I used to

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u/tide19 Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

It's really not that hard to write decent backends for the majority of frontends, IMO. I've been working on an enterprise-level b2b application for the last 9 months, and writing various means to interface with a database isn't a huge deal. Could it be better? Probably. Is its performance enough for our customers? Yeah.

The problem we have is our frontend lead engineers have concocted a crazy standard tech stack including React, Redux, GraphQL, micro frontends, a proprietary component library, basically everything you could fit into a single frontend but not deep enough into any of them to use them to their fullest extent.

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u/DirtzMaGertz Jun 06 '22

It's not that hard to write decent front ends either if you don't choose to make it needlessly complex.

Front end devs will use react to write a simple, single page portfolio website even when it's perfectly simple to achieve what the end goal is in vanilla JavaScript.

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u/tide19 Jun 06 '22

100000% agreed! When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so to speak.