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Why frontend devs saying that frontend is more complex than backend is total rubbish (and vice versa as well) 👇

Ruth Malan@ruthmalan.bsky.social

"Each new domain of knowledge appears simple from the distance of ignorance. The more we learn about a particular domain, the greater the number of uncertainties, doubts, questions and complexities." — Weick quoting Meacham In “The collapse of sensemaking in organizations”

Paweł Świątkowski

@katafrakt.eurosky.social

13 Mar 2025

I think they are both right. They just mean something different when using the word "complexity".

Tomasz Ducin

@ducin.dev

From my observation (nearly all such situations) the person claiming such statement is unaware of what the complexity even is on the other side of the stack. Classical unconscious incompetence.

13/3/25, 1:50 pm0 reposts0 likes

Paweł Świątkowski

@katafrakt.eurosky.social

13 Mar 2025

Exactly. So they are extrapolating their familiar complexity, like "backend does not have to deal with zillions of browsers and screen resolutions, so NATURALLY it must be simple, right?".

Tomasz Ducin

@ducin.dev

13 Mar 2025

Yeah, but all in all the final "judgement" is based on an implicit assumption that there's no other complexity. Which makes such judgement "rubbish" 😛