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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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At some point, it become fashionable for programmers to be called "developers" and then everyone wanted the cool title, so it applies to anyone even remotely involved now. There's never a way to turn back the clock and make words more precise again after people have blown them up, so there's not a lot of point in trying to change public sentiment. I've seen this happen to a lot of technical words over the last 30+ years, and I've basically decided that there's no point in trying to fight it. It's not worth the cost, especially since I'm unlikely to win.
I should say that I could see someone who does a decent amount of in-engine work (nodes and their attributes, scenes, importing, handling some technical setup, basic layout/UI stuff, testing, particles/shaders etc) being called a developer/designer even if they aren't a programmer. Though I also think someone like that probably can at least do some very simple code, at least pasting enough together to get something like movement/projectiles/signals etc.
Again, said as someone who is closer to an artist (and hasn't made a game) who has tinkered with some stuff like that.
Yeah but “words evolve” and “language changes!” You can’t just go around asking whether they’re good changes!