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Discussion on: What are some misconceptions about web development?

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Kirill Shestakov

That web dev is lesser / bigger than other kinds of development. Other developers often look down on web devs, thinking "oh, it's all just stupid CRUD, wait till you get interesting applications". First of all, no, it's not all CRUD. Front-end and back-end have all kinds of complex moving parts, one of which is CRUD. Secondly, web development is made of the same kinds of things as other development: conditional statements, loops, assignment, math, function calls, classes. They're the same thing. Thirdly, you can think of many, many systems as a sort of a CRUD, not related to web dev, e.g. the way drivers work can be thought of as simply writing to a certain memory region, i.e. doing a sort of a CRUD on this region.

I think there's different priorities for web dev, but it's because it's web dev rather than anything else, and this difference doesn't make it any lesser / bigger than other development.