I worry this article misses a larger issue: "full stack" tends to mean an ignorance of client-side constraints (nevermind the tools and techniques). Therefore the default stack for unspecialised engineers is simply unfit for most purposes *and they don't even know it*https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/1069843450235895808 …
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CSS & HTML don't look like "regular programming"; they are specialized tools for a thing that is only _programming adjacent_. It's sort of how airplanes have things that look a little bit like steering wheels for cars, but if you bring your mental model for cars, people die.
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Frontend is different in just as many dimensions as auto travel is to air travel. Physics still applies, and rough rules of how the world work are still valuable, but mastery of one implies no skill in the other domain.
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