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I'm a very good back-end developer. I hate front-end fiddly bits. I can do it, I just hate it. (If you live for seven levels of LESS code, more power to you.)

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> I hate front-end fiddly bits.

Yes. A lot of back-end devs would rather chew glass than debug for four browsers, plus mobile devices.

It is usually more susceptible to bugs than the back end. The combination of a lack of control over the environment your code runs in and javascript's weak typing give it that extra dose of fun.

In the same vein as your comment, I might as well say back end development sucks because the default MySQL datastore quietly drops strings longer than the field[1].

These days front-end =/= Javascript[2] by a long shot (maybe yours is, but blame the person who made that decision for your project).

1. I don't know if that's still true. If it is, then I'm glad I no longer have to deal with MySQL.

2. GWT had strong-typing since forever. Not that I'm endorsing it, but it's still front end. I do recommend TypeScript

> the default MySQL datastore quietly drops strings longer than the field [...] I don't know if that's still true. If it is, then I'm glad I no longer have to deal with MySQL.

That's still true, as I recall. To avoid this nonsense, you need to change the sql_mode - either globally in the server config, or only within your session by issuing an SQL query.

Documentation: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/sql-mode.html#sqlmod...

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