Funny, most people I've talked to said that the backend code usually is better structured and written, while the frontend (web and games) was a hot mess

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In particular, frontend has to interact with humans, which is one hell of a messy API.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. I’m a full time frontend developer and humans don’t have very well defined APIs

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