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		jolt42 on Feb 5, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software development topics I've changed my mind o... "frontend" is the wrong word, he should have said "web". Writing desktop UIs or mobile apps tends to be elegant. And probably "SPA frontend" as server-side UIs are also much cleaner.

phist_mcgee on Feb 5, 2025 [–]

These days web/mobile is implied by frontend. I'd say a very large proportion now work on these two compared to desktop.

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