Everyone expects the frontend to be easy, especially non-engineers: "hey, it's just a box, and you can just resize it and center it just that way..", while non-engineers would just move away when you mention thread/concurrency/parallelism.
The outside perception, I am afraid, affects me. I don't want to be stuck all the time doing things that are equally hard, but much less appreciated.
I have a lot of respect for frontend development, and approach it with the same kind of caution and respect that I do the backend stuff, however that is not always appreciated, and since it can get complicated fast, and people are expected to finish quickly as if on a treadmill, those things get messed up, hacked, and brittled up.
Another analysis paralysis issue with frontend is cost/benefit for doing it "right." Since frontend is a leaf and not the dependency of another layer in the application, it becomes dispensible to a certain extend in some scenarios. It is seen as replaceable and not worth spending a lot of time on. So when working on frontend, second guessing whether it will be scrapped off later is always hanging in there, paralysing you between "engineering" mode, or just give it a quick hack.
I would not dread doing frontend development, if allowed to do things correctly.
Latitude and longitude based addressing is well-past due. Two around-10-digits decimal coordinates and a building number is all we really need these days.
The outside perception, I am afraid, affects me. I don't want to be stuck all the time doing things that are equally hard, but much less appreciated.
I have a lot of respect for frontend development, and approach it with the same kind of caution and respect that I do the backend stuff, however that is not always appreciated, and since it can get complicated fast, and people are expected to finish quickly as if on a treadmill, those things get messed up, hacked, and brittled up.
Another analysis paralysis issue with frontend is cost/benefit for doing it "right." Since frontend is a leaf and not the dependency of another layer in the application, it becomes dispensible to a certain extend in some scenarios. It is seen as replaceable and not worth spending a lot of time on. So when working on frontend, second guessing whether it will be scrapped off later is always hanging in there, paralysing you between "engineering" mode, or just give it a quick hack.
I would not dread doing frontend development, if allowed to do things correctly.