Serious question, not a native speaker: Why do people in the Anglosphere refer to mostly-software companies as tech companies, or to software developers as tech workers?

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Mr Tibbs

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I am an engineer. Most developers aren't though, unfortunately.

[–] Cover_czar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Software Author/ Author

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"coder-codewriter"

[–] klisurovi4@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I am partial to "code monkey"

On a serious note, I usually refer to myself as a developer or a software engineer when I wanna sound a bit more important.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Light Monkey

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use software engineer but whatevs they're all good.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago

If you call them engineers I'm going to engineer your femur into two pieces.

[–] 00x0xx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Coder isn't a professional title. Software engineer and engineer are very broad of a term, because they can cover alot of work that's not directly coding software. Not all programmers write software code, some just 'program' software that's already written.

So i think developer is the best term for someone that 'develops' and write software code for a living. Or even software developer, those terms are interchangable.

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