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    22 hours ago

    I’m an elitist asshole and I hate that people say “react dev” when really it’s “web dev that uses react”

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      21 hours ago

      Is this distinction really all that useful?

      I suppose you could write a react app that doesn’t use “the web”? But you still might just say they are a react developer.

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          17 hours ago

          Yeah I guess I’m old. Seems like everything is called “web dev” these days.

          I was answering a question somewhere related to something like C/C++ and Operating System level stuff. Someone replied asking where I learned “web dev.” I would consider that general programming, or possibly systems programming, but certainly not “web dev.”