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 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 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.

[–] paraffine@jlai.lu 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Plus for the front most people use very unsafe languages and glued together frameworks (JavaScript, typescript, react, Vue etc), whereas on the backend we can use proper type-safe, compiled languages with better abstractions (rust, scala,...) with proper unit and integration tests.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

All the node.js backends reading this rn

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