Tackling Webdev as a Bioinformatician: why is it so hard?
Tackling bioinformatics as a webdev: why is it so hard?<p>&quot;I am a professional in Field X but I am doing work in Field Y despite having minimal skills or experience and I ran into loads of problems and issues that I don&#x27;t know how to fix!  Field Y is total bullshit and people need to make it easier so people with no skills or experience can do it!  Wah wah!&quot;<p>... or to be less facetious, modern web&#x2F;frontend development is a genuine skill set that benefits from experience and knowledge.<p>Should we expect anyone to just jump in cold with minimal experience and not find it difficult? E.g. in the same way would we expect people to start bioinformatics cold and be productive immediately?<p>I&#x27;d doubt it.<p>On the past web dev has been looked down upon as somehow &quot;lesser&quot; than &quot;real&quot; engineering, with sneering criticism from people more used to traditional development approaches (particularly criticism of JavaScript).  It is just some web pages right?  HTML and CSS?  How hard can it be?<p>Well guess what: it is a genuine skillset and people should not expect to just be able to jump into something without knowledge training or experience and be proficient at it, just like we&#x27;d not for brain surgery, car mechanics, concert piano, structural engineering, or indeed bioinformatics.<p>&lt;&#x2F;rant&gt;