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Ask HN: Why did back-end development explode in complexity?

Follow up question: is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?

Note: this is a fun jab back at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218003

Frontend feels like it gets incredible amounts of uninformed hatred here, and you could copy/paste many of the defensive replies here over there verbatim. My take is backend isn’t too complex, just sometimes over-complicated in specific cases. Just like frontend! I just wish there weren’t so many non-frontend developers in every frontend thread hating on it while obviously not being very experienced with it!

Happy new year!

68 points nwienert 3 years ago 73 comments

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