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Bek Brace
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As a developer, I hate ... ?

In your career as a developer, what are the main three things that you hate about being in the tech world or as being a web dev / software engineer ?

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Ben Sinclair

I hate... the industry and the community being driven by social considerations and gamification.

Peer-pressure, cargo-cult mentality, hero-worship, the rise of development "influencers" and the importance people - especially junior developers - hang on things like the number of Twitter followers or GitHub stars your project has.

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Maddy

This is an interesting one. Why do people care about Github stars? It's something that I've started to notice when I joined Twitter last year.

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Bek Brace

Exactly, I agree with you Ben and Maddy !
The same when others on social media care about the likes, views, followers etc...
The criteria of evaluation is totally distorted these days

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leob • Edited

Best comment ever, I've also noticed this over the last few years, even on dev.to! People go crazy over other people's opinions about them ... time to say "no" to that.

Extremely harmful, why do you think mental issues are on the rise to such a huge extent, especially among younger people? We just drive each other crazy - non-devs with "glamorous" insta profiles or with producing the most popular TikTok clips, devs with 3K plus github star projects or with nonsense like "as a developer you SHOULD ... (fill in anything that apparently we SHOULD do nowadays)".

Time to focus again on our love for the profession and the projects, and less on the stars and the likes and all of the ego inflation.

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SeongKuk Han • Edited

Updating trends is too fast, especially, in web development, I think.

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Bek Brace

this one drives me crazy !

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insidewhy • Edited

And yet most of us are still stuck with React. Which isn't anywhere near as good as the hype would have us believe.

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Keff

Hype, web3 and NFTs, it's all BS

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Tim Carey

Do JavaScript SPA libraries/frameworks fall under hype? Lol

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aben • Edited

Oh Tim bro, 100% they ruined what web is for students and wanna be developers. They think React is a must. Well in reality, they would be better challenging themselves with basic algorithms and data structures, then http and crypto... instead. It's so sad for me personally because I respect education system and science in general. I feel pitty about the whole the situation.

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aben

Same as you!! Add to this cryptocurrencies,

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Bek Brace

yep, definitely cryptocurrency !

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Yes I completely agree

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Edited

Fake Shiny objects :(

shiny object

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hacker4world

Css and regex

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Bek Brace

interesting, you hate CSS ?
Regex I understand, but why do you hate CSS ?

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hacker4world

It is always impossible for me to make sth good with css

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GreggHume

yeah cause css is not catching up fast enough with the expectations of design. I agree with you.

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hacker4world

Yeah

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RadekHavelka

And because its not self explaining, if you want to achieve some things, you cant do without years of knowledge ... but its just a style ...

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Roman

You can use a CSS extension called tailwind. (It makes CSS realy easy)

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hacker4world

But that could cause crazy html

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Khokon M.

Working on projects I don't like!

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Bek Brace

i know what you mean :(

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CooldudeNo13026

Web3 because it's overhyped

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Djilou

not planned deadlines

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Steve

Bro mentality, hustle culture, trends, smartasses.

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Bek Brace

I agree with you totally !
Either seniors and cocky or juniors and smartasses !

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Felix DUSENGIMANA

deadlines for sure😁😁😁.

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Thorsten Hirsch

Personalized ad algorithms. I think they're getting dumber by the minute.

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Christian Engel

Bad or missing documentation

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Andrew Baisden

Unrealistic deadlines that give yourself, team and the client a headache.

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Domenico Rizzo

I wouldn't say "hate" or rather I would say that I don't like closed-mind people but I tolerate them.

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Bek Brace

I agree with you 100%