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And the author is also wrong, because he thinks that all software is made up of a frontend and a backend.

Unless, of course, by "our profession" he means "us, the people who can only code web apps"

I think it was just an over all generalization. I wrote my opinion based upon reading this article and i am not even remotely doing a web app for over 7 years. It is mostly embedded / networks / c. Still i didn't feel like he was talking about web apps only. Full stack - front vs back end are standard terms often mentioned in recruiting at all big name companies as well as startups

Hm hm hm. Ok.

That must be regional then. Where I'm located (the Netherlands), these terms are very much web app only. Nobody working in embedded systems would call himself a "full stack engineer". Stack? What stack? I make robots move!

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Huh? I think you completely misunderstood the sentiment in my post. I'm saying that not all software as made by a group of front end engineers and a group of backend engineers - that structure is rather specific for web apps, and the occasial internet-heavy mobile app.

If you write software for cars, rockets, printers, cell phones, game consoles, or ATMs, these distinctions hardly apply. To rant about how everybody's either a frontend engineer or a backend engineer, to me, implies that the author's world consists of web apps only.

Thanks for clarifying.

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