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

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

On the front end, you can put lipstick on that pig.

On the back end, it has to work and there's nowhere to apply lipstick.

OTOH, it seems there is a trend in modern dev practices that it's acceptable for a service to terminate frequently, as long as it respawns, which finally made me figure out all the sci-fi tropes where a ship's systems aren't responding. It's because too many are crashing in concert. But mostly terrifying that this practice would ever be considered practical.

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