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Web Development is very different I feel. Web devs iterate on their product a lot more. A game is shipped. There is nothing after its shipped besides minor patches (if we ignore multiplayer online games)

Web developers constantly need to fulfill new requirements so having a good level of code quality is important.

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You might think so, but it really depends on the culture and philosophy of the company.

"Let's rewrite this old messy app in 'modern' technology" - sure it seems cleaner at first, but when you actually reach parity with the old app, you are likely about as messy.

I tend to think that a lot of the messiness in business apps is more due to the complexity of the business rules than the structure of the application.

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