Я с какого района?

[izard]

Maybe I should not call myself "s/w developer" anymore. Recently when I introduce myself, the first question is whether I am in backend or frontend development.

If I tell that I am in neither, they tell: "cool, bro, so you are fullstack dev?"

Only advanced folks recognize other areas, like in embedded or gamedev, but lamost nobody knows about likes of telco, fintech, HPC.

Did I miss a paradigm shift - I guess now 90% of programmers are web developers, right?

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[outputlogic]

That's about right: 90% are either "full-stack developers" or "data scientists" nowadays. Even technical conferences with C/C++ and embedded Linux are almost extinct.

[izard]

I know couple of data scientists, they all code in R for banks. Are there other kinds?

[outputlogic]

Right. That's what physics PhD turned quant was called ten years ago. Now it's anybody who watched few Coursera classes and knows Python.