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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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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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.
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.
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
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.
Updating trends is too fast, especially, in web development, I think.
this one drives me crazy !
And yet most of us are still stuck with React. Which isn't anywhere near as good as the hype would have us believe.
Hype, web3 and NFTs, it's all BS
Do JavaScript SPA libraries/frameworks fall under hype? Lol
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.
Same as you!! Add to this cryptocurrencies,
yep, definitely cryptocurrency !
Yes I completely agree
Fake Shiny objects :(
Css and regex
interesting, you hate CSS ?
Regex I understand, but why do you hate CSS ?
It is always impossible for me to make sth good with css
yeah cause css is not catching up fast enough with the expectations of design. I agree with you.
Yeah
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 ...
You can use a CSS extension called tailwind. (It makes CSS realy easy)
But that could cause crazy html
Working on projects I don't like!
i know what you mean :(
Web3 because it's overhyped
not planned deadlines
Bro mentality, hustle culture, trends, smartasses.
I agree with you totally !
Either seniors and cocky or juniors and smartasses !
deadlines for sure😁😁😁.
Personalized ad algorithms. I think they're getting dumber by the minute.
Bad or missing documentation
Unrealistic deadlines that give yourself, team and the client a headache.
I wouldn't say "hate" or rather I would say that I don't like closed-mind people but I tolerate them.
I agree with you 100%