Why are web devs so smug despite objectively being the worst

Ignorance is a bliss

B-but muh mongodb is so web scale

>>57888494
low testosterone

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Botnet propaganda inflates their ego's and makes them think they're L337 c0derz: when in reality they only make digital bread and circuses that placate the ignorant masses.

>>57888494
Because they have no idea what other people, of any profession, do for a living.
Everything is easy for the man who doesn't have to do it.

>rubydev.png

>>57888690

>wanting to do everything

>>57888494

the web devs you're talking about don't know back end half the time, claim that HTML is programming, always want to know what the latest css framework is, always want to use meme front end .js frameworks, etc. I know plenty of web devs that can program in C. I know plenty of web devs that know way more than 90% of /g/ when it comes to data structures and algorithms. You obviously don't know many people, and for that, i am sorry.

>>57888494
Because the ones you're talking about are artists that think they're programmers.
Artists are already smug as fuck, so deluding them into thinking they're smart by calling them "developers" just results in them being an insufferable cunt to everyone all the time.

How to spot them: You'll usually see them whining about how hard html and css "programming" is and how amazing node.js is.

>>57889119

node is pretty gr8 tho m8

>>57888968
Apology accepted

Dunning-Kruger effect

we're just better.

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I remember back in like 97 I started realizing I had to come up to speed on this new "web" thingy, so I:
> bought a server
> learned both Windows and Linux server administration
> learned to install and configure IIS, Apache, PHP, MySql, etc.
> learned how to code PHP+MySql CRUD apps
> learned how to do DNS management
> learned about TCP, UPD, how to use wireshark, etc.
> even learned winsock programming in C cuz why not?

So then I figure, oh, great, now I can go out there and start doing web stuff. Then I realize that I can't use that term "web developer" because people assume that's someone who knows how to use Microsoft FrontPage (remember this is the late 90s) to create a HTML page and they know how drag and drop an image file into it -- or maybe if they're real good they've memorized the syntax for the "<img src='url'>" and "<a href='url'>" tags and can actually enter HTML code by hand like a real pro!!!!!!

So somehow I have to convince people that I'm at 100 times above that level, but yet I'm still always lumped in with the "web development" category because HR has no clue that a person like me could even exist.