I heard this argument before. Superficially it sounds great, but we front-end devs are not the drivers but the mechanics. And mechanics should jolly well have an idea of how the underlying technologies work.
Peter Kassenaar @PeterKassenaar
23 Dec 2020
Replying to @ppk
Playing Devil's Advocate here. But: "I have no clue how a modern car works, yet I drive one. It always gets me where I want to be. Why the heck should I learn CSS (and HTML)?"
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In that analogy, wouldn't mechanics be considered BE devs?
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Replying to @brunoborges @ppk
You mean as they never fix anything that I as a driver have to use?

Dec 23, 2020 路 7:53 PM UTC

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