The entire meme is about web-dev. That split between backend and frontend isn’t anywhere else. (And is stupid for the web too, but well, that’s what web-dev do.)
I mean, not quite. There should be a split between backend (logic) and frontend (presentation) even for desktop applications. It’s not mandatory, but simply much better design. The ‘interface’ with which your frontend code calls the backend is much like an API (as in an API is also an interface)
So there is no desktop program that calls to a remote server for information someplace? Maybe like a server database on what games you can join, player movements and speed who is online, maybe even what music you can play? Or maybe a mobile/phone app that does the same? A way to have a standard interface but get new and updated info delivered to you in that specific form? This information would be delivered from one specific place to another, maybe to your table/device.
Front end and back end happen in more environments than you think.
That being said I can get delivery to my terminal/cmd from a ton of places that have nothing to do with each other kind of like getting pizza and tacos delivered.
I was being sarcastic with the maybes and countering your statement that the meme is entirely web-dev. But hey, it’s just a picture on the internet and I thought it was great we don’t need to go round and round about every aspect of the analogy.
For anyone about to say API is more like a delivery driver an not a server, realize we are in Programmer_humor, not web_dev.
No joke that was the first thing I thought but realized it’s freaking perfect.
The entire meme is about web-dev. That split between backend and frontend isn’t anywhere else. (And is stupid for the web too, but well, that’s what web-dev do.)
I mean, not quite. There should be a split between backend (logic) and frontend (presentation) even for desktop applications. It’s not mandatory, but simply much better design. The ‘interface’ with which your frontend code calls the backend is much like an API (as in an API is also an interface)
So there is no desktop program that calls to a remote server for information someplace? Maybe like a server database on what games you can join, player movements and speed who is online, maybe even what music you can play? Or maybe a mobile/phone app that does the same? A way to have a standard interface but get new and updated info delivered to you in that specific form? This information would be delivered from one specific place to another, maybe to your table/device.
Front end and back end happen in more environments than you think.
That being said I can get delivery to my terminal/cmd from a ton of places that have nothing to do with each other kind of like getting pizza and tacos delivered.
Lots of "maybe"s, I see…
On which of those application types there are developers that write most of one of the halves, but do not touch the other half?
(Oh, yeah, on the phone apps, but only the ones that are a web site cached on the phone.)
I was being sarcastic with the maybes and countering your statement that the meme is entirely web-dev. But hey, it’s just a picture on the internet and I thought it was great we don’t need to go round and round about every aspect of the analogy.