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Dave

Slightly tenuous links made here.

I have in the past, been the only Developer to work on a system, that included a front end component and back end component (and DB), but it was only accessible within the company (not accessible via the Internet).

I have also in the past, worked on a Development team where my Java code (that you list as being the realm of Developers, not Engineers) was compiled and then installed somewhere that the OS could access.

I'm also pretty sure that the people that wrote parts of MS Office, Adobe etc, were Developers, not Engineers. The popularity of the product is a function of the marketing department, not the job titles of the Dev team.

To me, the thing that separates Developers from Engineers, is their viewpoint (forgoing the debate around "Engineers must have qualifications"). Developers have a "ticket munching" mentality, even if Senior. Engineers have a bigger view, and know when it's sensible to go have a chat with a BA to clarify they actually meant the thing written in the ticket, etc.