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Um, wtf?

Wtf on kafkaesque parallel, frontend awfulness or both? 😉 I don't want to sound clickbaity here, but I imagine the commentary on that could be a worthy discussion if made into a solid, non-emotional panel on a conference led with good speakers from various backgrounds.

8/2/25, 9:34 pm0 reposts0 likes

Not clickbaity at all to me 😉 Wtf on yet another folk bashing what they probably lack knowledge/experience in. (too many points relate to backend/architecture to consider him a "frontend engineer"). I despise frontend devs bashing backend - and vice versa - equally the same. Learn first...

Number one reason to have "us and them" in terms of frontend and backend engineers? Our way or your way (or the highway)? Bashing the other side. Comparing any platform to Kafkaesque (the author, not Apache kafka 😛) is just dumb. I mean it. Feel free to bash me 😛

Mateusz Papiernik

@maticomp.net

I wouldn't dare bashing that, especially when I sit firmly in the Swiss army knife, T-shape, full-stack, close co-op between frontend/backend or call-it-whatever camp where such divisions are simply and always counterproductive.

Sounds like a good environment 👍 As a rule of thumb I respect people who possess the knowledge I'm lacking (if incompetence, then at least a conscious one).

Mateusz Papiernik

@maticomp.net

Sure, I agree on that sentiment in full. Bashing not backed with experience is just bollocks whatever the area. But it's not without reason that frontend is quite a bit more polarizing atm than it was few years back, which by itself is an interesting phenomenon to think about.

Everything there is for a reason. The reading could be tech-related, business-related, people-, etc... Anyway bashing reduces one's urge to actually understand the context to fully understand why something is not done otherwise. "I'd rather have questions that can't be answered [...]"