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Seeing more bullshit "HTML is a programming language" discourse, and uh, damnit

HTML meets some definitions of programming language, but would be way less useful if it was used that way.

Stop gate keeping Programmer as the only Good profession and understand that other roles and jobs are as valuable, and as part of the tech ecosystem. Programmer is not the Best Job or the Good Job, it's a fucking role and people who don't do it aren't lesser, so telling a designer they're a programmer because HTML is fucking patronizing and degrading to *their actual skills and profession*.
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@silverwizard HTML + CSS is a presentation layer. Browsers have a built-in stylesheet to render certain HTML elements with default formatting.

JavaScript is a programming language that operates very well on HTML's DOM.

Calling HTML a "programming language" is disingenuous. Nothing is being "programmed".