Comments on: More Than “Slapping Paint on a Website” https://css-tricks.com/more-than-slapping-paint-on-a-website/ Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Aleksandr Hovhannisyan https://css-tricks.com/more-than-slapping-paint-on-a-website/#comment-1797924 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:32:06 +0000 https://css-tricks.com/?p=375190#comment-1797924 I think the biggest hurdle to adopting a CSS Engineer role is going to be the stigma surrounding CSS as a language since some don’t consider it to be “real” programming. A few devs have written articles exploring this problem:

Tailwind and the Femininity of CSS
Reluctant Gatekeeping: The Problem With Full Stack

I don’t share that view, and I think CSS as a domain-specific programming language is very powerful and beautiful; unfortunately, many developers do look down on CSS. I can especially relate to Heydon’s point here:

In my experience, men especially earn kudos for their knowledge of JavaScript or Python, but little from CSS skills. CSS, which makes things look ‘pretty’, is considered feminine (don’t tell that to a peacock).

A related issue is that of job titles and deciding how to market oneself in the software industry. Am I a programmer? A developer? Or should I call myself a “software engineer” because that seems to carry more weight and authority?

]]> By: Ben https://css-tricks.com/more-than-slapping-paint-on-a-website/#comment-1797912 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:53:52 +0000 https://css-tricks.com/?p=375190#comment-1797912 Css is truly cool, it has a learning curve but i had fun learning it

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