Yeah, that’s my experience. The backend is an environment you control completely and has well-defined inputs and outputs specifically designed to be handled by machines. Front end code changes on a whim, runs who the hell knows where, and has to look good doing it.

[–] paraffine@jlai.lu 5 points 4 hours ago

Plus for the front most people use very unsafe languages and glued together frameworks (JavaScript, typescript, react, Vue etc), whereas on the backend we can use proper type-safe, compiled languages with better abstractions (rust, scala,...) with proper unit and integration tests.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 hours ago

In particular, frontend has to interact with humans, which is one hell of a messy API.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 9 hours ago

And, while tested to extreme limits, somehow the end user still finds ways to break it, creating more things haphazardly stuffed in