Web Dev Mockery
Comments criticize web development as not 'real' programming and lament its overemphasis on Hacker News, often mocking web developers while asserting the existence of broader software development domains.
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Sample Comments
Because they're not a web developer?
Yeah, seems very web dev centric.
Funny to see web developers aren't software developers :D
If you have to ask, you're not a web developer. It's incredibly useful if you are.
You know, some of us don't do webdev.
You joke, but there's a ton of web devs who think this way.
Because web developers are not real developers.
There's more to programming than web development.
Long may webdevs go on believing that!
How is this related to web devs?