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I've really liked this post. I've totally agree with it. We should feel lucky to have such tools. I'm tired of hearing how awful is javascript ecosystem. How about comparing Front End vs Back End technologies? You have Javascript, and it's supersets for Front End, you have 100s of different languages for Back End development. One might say Back End sucks because it is very different across different languages and companies.

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If you want to consider every facet of backend instead of the few main ones that show up when you want to solve a problem X in language Y then why claim frontend is just Js?

By your reasoning for backend, frontend sucks because I could probably find Open GL wrappers for every language used on the backend and make a front end.

Backend really is relatively simple because usually language X has a few really good libraries/frameworks you can pick up. Js is Node.Js. Python is Django or Flask depending on what you want to do, Elixir is usually Phoenix, etc.

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