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Angular is being adopted by a lot of enterprise-y / small business shops, specifically because it can be used (just like typical enterprise code) to have "coders" who don't know how to code, write software.

I've heard this claim applied to a lot of technologies, but in the five years I spent in the enterprise software world, I never once saw it happen. People might try to have non-coders write code. For about five minutes. It never lasts longer than that.

What you do see, on the other hand, are a bunch of uninspiring programmers who will find a way to write strictly procedural code in any language or framework.



edit: just realized this might have been a communication problem. I meant coders that have the resumes of programmers, but are specifically hired cheap because they aren't actually programmers, just people reaching for the salary. The kid right out of college with some vb skill. 80 people on visas from some Indian contracting company.

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Definitely depends on the level of quality of the enterprise shop. When I was doing consulting, part of the new employee hiring process for a new developer at the client site was to open a Microsoft support ticket to help the "dev" install visual studio.


Gotcha. Makes sense that it's just a terminology problem. How uninspiring does a programmer have to be before you can no longer call them a programmer? :)


If you claim .Net programming skills, being able to install visual studio might be a good first step : D

As for a serious answer? Who knows. That said, I know some people dislike eric raymond, but I still keep a warm feeling in my heart for http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html, if only because its one of the first things I stumbled upon way back.




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