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Is only backend “real engineering” and not frontend?

Is only backend “real engineering” and not frontend? The fact is that engineering is engineering, but the economy doesn’t cater to every form of engineering equally when it comes to growth in India.

  • Backend engineering in higher demand than frontend in India
  • Backend jobs offer higher income and prestige
  • Economy shapes perception of engineering careers

Go's ecosystem is going agent-readable

For years, the only way for a program to learn about a Go package was to scrape the HTML off pkg.go.dev and hope the markup didn't shift under it.

  • Go ecosystem adds API for machine-readable metadata
  • API designed for LLMs and agents to reason about packages
  • Go 1.27 introduces default features for agent integration

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