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Discussion on: Stop using the title "Full stack developer"

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Andrei Dascalu

You're really going overboard on the overthinking bit if you insist to stretch a fairly common meaning.
A stack is simply a set of layers forming an application. A full stack involves all the layers between and user and the most backedish thing you have.
There's really no implication that full stack means all the possible technologies. A stack be longer or shorter and can even be comprised of a single language even if it spans multiple platforms (eg JavaScript via nodejs + JavaScript via browser).
Rather, the expression "a company's stack" is meaningless as a list of technologies unless they are stacked all of them on top of each other in every project.

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Francesco Pigozzi

My point is to understand which stack we are talking about. By just saying ‘full stack’, which information are you giving to the reader?

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Andrei Dascalu

That you are talking about all the parts of a stack. That you can do, on a general level, frontend and backed and databases.
As an analogy, it's like saying you know OOP. You probably know it hands-on in a language or two but it doesn't speak as to a particular set of technologies.