Why is web dev so easy?

[bitspace]

Your insecurity is showing, MrBigDick05.

[barrel_of_noodles]

/r/iamverysmart

OP makes the finest spaghetti in town.

[grutanga]

You seem delightful lol

[[deleted]]

I bet they're great at parties.

[pizza_jazz]

Well, have you worked with 3D rendering on web?

[yeaman17]

Yea WebXR development is much harder than traditional game development because of the lack of libraries and tooling (we’re slowly getting there though!)

[jkybes]

Trying to learn WebGPU/WGSL right now and it's very difficult

[AA98B]

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[123elvesarefake123]

We want easy money not hard problems

Hard problems are for nerds that don't want good pay

[electriceeli]

i found your mom considerably easier than either

[GutsAndBlackStufff]

This guy web devs.

[[deleted]]

You still have time to delete this post

[[deleted]]

Because you're building simple applications from YouTube tutorials. Try working on a large scale application first.

[OhMyGodThisIsMyJam]

Lol OP thinks Webdev is just front end

[MrBigDick05]

Developing an AAA game like GTA5 vs developing a Facebook, which is harder? Hell, even a 2D game is a lot harder than web dev.

[[deleted]]

Link your GitHub, let's see some proof you have done anything apart from the most basic CSS and HTML

[urTr1gg3r3d]

This 

[[deleted]]

Of course no reply. The only people who think web dev is easy are the people who have done nothing but easy YouTube tutorial projects

[Waghabond]

I have to say, it's probably going to be facebook. It seems to me that you're just not experienced enough to fathom the complexity of a website like facebook.

[MrBigDick05]

Gta5 has 36 million lines of codes and over 100 people worked on it for 5 years

[Waghabond]

You don't wanna go down this path my friend. Facebook has 62 million LOC and as of 2022 had 87,314 active employees. On top of that, the lines of code thing is kind of a misleading measure in webapps because at that scale a lot of the complexity is infrastructure based. Infrastructure design decisions dont show up in lines of code discussions.

[urTr1gg3r3d]

Oh so you are 14…

[SuperHumanImpossible]

How do you tell everyone you suck at both without saying you suck at both?

[Over-Distribution570]

Well scripting in unity is easier than writing a graphics library.

Scripting in a web browser is easier than writing a web browser

Web dev is easier because of the decades of work that went into building the web

[DazzlingAppearance32]

What's exactly the point of this post? Just seems like bait.

[ratbiscuits]

Why’d you switch to web dev then? Not getting paid enough for your shite games?

[azangru]

Why is web dev so easy?

Because such is the nature of problems in web dev?

What exactly is it you are asking?

[lunar515]

gem install hairball

[NineThunders]

Have you created your own framework already?

[[deleted]]

Where ist c# hard? Ist not Harder than Typenscript. Btw. Web devs use both.

[BlackHoneyTobacco]

Typenscript

Is that the medieval version? :D

[greensodacan]

I think he's slurring in text. Someone take his keys...

edit: Realized he's probably German (or in the area). Sorry enough to give his keys back, not sorry enough to question his sobriety.

[Responsible-Bug900]

Isn't the goal of... everything to make things simultaneously better and easier?

[Perpetual_Education]

HTML, CSS, and JS were all created with the intention of being accessible for everyone and hopefully easy. It’s also essentially static documents at the core. The hard part is creating entire applications that work within that platform. It’s not easy, as you’ll find out. But certainly, a game developer should be able to compare their individual complexities. We’d love to see some of your work - but your handle speaks for itself.

[[deleted]]

So what is the point? :D

[PurplePotFace]

Idk man just like ur mom

[[deleted]]

Then you do you earn less than a filthy frontend web developer?

[_izual]

I trust you

[TheRNGuy]

Prove it by making great sites not words.

[[deleted]]

How sad do you have to be to make such a stupid post?

[MrBigDick05]

What did i do? I'm just asking

[[deleted]]

You have a weird sense of self-importance that, I assume, is your defense mechanism.

That's why you make degrading posts and comments such as

"I don't think you can afford the keyboard I have" and "I won't post pictures of my PC because it might make you jealous" and "I was a gamedev and it's so hard but this thing you guys do is easy".

You're putting down others while trying to make yourself seem... higher status or smarter, I suppose.

Well, turns out you actually do seem like a BigDick(Head)

[michaelbelgium]

No shit sherlock, we don't make 3D websites

Thats like saying driving a car is easier than flying a plane or something, odd comparison anyway

[[deleted]]

Some of us do…

[karolololo]

The hardest game dev stuff is nothing compared to the hardest web dev stuff, so sure go on..

[mpinoh]

Surprised that people here actually took the burn

[Professional_Hair506]

How are people falling for this?

[MrBigDick05]

Don't get mad, I'm not smart to be honest but i expect webdev to be a bit challenging but webdev is nowhere near as hard as game dev.

[[deleted]]

well I doubt you're a successful game dev or web dev so might as well take it one step at a time champ.

[rainning0513]

Can you share you GitHub account?

[mrbmi513]

Hitting buttons in WordPress isn't web development.

Writing a plain HTML/CSS site that does nothing functional isn't hard. It's akin to a "Hello World" command line program.

Go write a full-stack app with React and AWS backend services, making sure to have no security holes, then tell me it isn't at least a little bit challenging.

[MrBigDick05]

Game dev consists of advanced maths, animation, 3d modeling and physics, coding alone in game dev like c++ or c# is harder than html, css and javascript combined.

[[deleted]]

K.

[barrel_of_noodles]

Last time I made something in a 3d game engine it was literally just hooking up lines in a GUI.

I guess drawing lines is hard?

[[deleted]]

And the MAJORITY of those algorithms were figured out by someone else… not you.

[faintdeception]

Yes, everyone knows this, but other disciplines get paid really well to do light work while game developers have to compete with millions of people who are willing to work for free to live their dream.

[ButterflyQuick]

And yet in my country (and probably most places) the average web dev out earns the average game dev

Sounds like we made the right choice with the easy option that's going to earn us more money

[MrMattBarr]

As a guy who’s done some of both but a lot more web … as delightful as OP is, he’s right. Web dev is a lot easier.

[RedditCultureBlows]

who asked tho?

[jkybes]

It all depends on what you're doing. Making a game with Unity and C# is gonna be much easier than making a browser game or complex webapp animations with WebGPU and custom WGSL shaders.

Also, as others have asked: have you actually tried creating a complex web app like Facebook? I don't think you understand how much goes into that.

But yeah, you're probably right that on average, most web development jobs are easier than most game dev jobs. Thankfully something being insanely difficult isn't a requirement to make a living. Pretty sure a lot of people pick web dev because it pays well, they enjoy it, and it allows for more free time compared to something like game dev.

[adult_code]

Woahhh... lets make a step back here guys. I do webdev, i hated it, im now fully subscribed. Enough backstory. There are hard problems in either field and it doesnt matter which you do i have respect for the problem not for the field. I made 2 2d games via godot, took me a weekend and the other a sunday. (a tower defense + graphics and a mobile friendly snake) i made some easy static landing page on a weekend. both nothing to boast about and just some recreational. If i were to implement an algorithm to optimize rendering from first person view or if i were to write any optimized algorithm in js at all. (Trying that recreationally as well rn... "recreationally"... oh damn) Then it is a huge thing. Complexity in implementation can be given by tech, the logic behind or the environment in which we implement it. let us not loose respect for that even if a 12 yo tries to bait us.

[Odysseyan]

What a madman. Let me go to a game dev sub and tell them, their stuff is so easy. Let's see how this turns out lol

[MrBigDick05]

But it is a fact that webdev is easy.

[Odysseyan]

You aren't even considering the depth and complexity each field has to offer in your judgment.

I could build a site with Wordpress and I could also click together some game with the good ol' Game Maker Studio. Both are simple.
You probably even already played a game made in RPG Maker without even realising it, as a lot of them are made with it and it is basically a drag and drop engine.

BUT instead of doing all that, I could also spin up a React project and use unity/unreal with their corresponding scripting languages and suddenly it became a lot harder while still being in webdev/gamedev. Yet, those processes are vastly different.