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Comment by torstenvl | Hacker News Reader

> It might seem like I’m just asserting my stance in some petty online argument.

Yes. CSS is, simply, objectively, not a programming language. It is not for writing programs.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth developing expertise in. Lots of technical subject matters are not programming languages.

> Surely it’s a coincidence the first group tends to be more male than the second.

I'm starting to suspect that what the author perceives is more about how seriously people take the author, rather than how seriously people take front-end development.

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The likening of the percieved "front-end devaluation" to gender and racial inequality completely derailed this article for me. The author, a white man funilly enough, seems to be desperately trying to use these issues to give his own ideas legitimacy. Unfortunately most of his arguments are thinly veiled tantrums thrown in response to his misunderstanding of his own role in software development.

Yes, under appreciation of front-end skills is a real problem. No, that doesn't mean HTML or CSS are programming languages. You aren't "programming the presentation logic", you're configuring the browser.

Author seems desperate to tie sexism into everything which is weird considering software engineering has been dominated for men so long I am not sure how he comes to the conclusion there is some sort of subtle sexism at play, like he believes that every male backend engineer is calling every male frontend engineer a sissy or something.