#you can make horrendous nonweb code

[stkptr]

A lot of people call making (mostly static) websites "coding" and fair enough honestly. But it always seems kind of weird to me. When I think of programming I think of the beauty in structure and natural abstractions that you design to communicate ideas, often based on mathematical truths. Meanwhile web development is pure hell, nothing works ever. If it's working then you forgot to test on some browser version that every one of your friends is using for some unknown cosmic reason. It's all opaque and nothing makes sense, there's no beauty, only ire. It only gets worse the deeper into "real" programming you go (Javascript etc.).