Are configurators developers?
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Developers and configurators are very much different people. Configurators change options usually placed in a config.yml file. Developers make plugins or websites or other applications.
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Well thank you guys for helping me prove my point xD
No. Just no. Developers actually spend the time to master a language and create applications from it. Configurators are people who change true to false in a text file. Development requires skill, configuration requires no skill at all besides basic English and common sense.
Unfortunately, in a lot of places, this is a common mistake. Especially public "service provider" discords.
People who configure servers, and people who develop custom plugins are often labeled under the same category. It's annoying how many people I have to explain that difference to when they PM me asking me to make them a config for X plugin. Honestly, you could offer me $50 to make a ShopGUI config and I'd turn it down. I hate that kind of work.
I won't deny that people who configure servers are definitely skilled, somewhat. I'd personally label them as "Server Developers", and people who make plugins "Plugin Developers".
Edit: Aaaaand I just realised this was a necro. My bad.
People who configure servers, and people who develop custom plugins are often labeled under the same category. It's annoying how many people I have to explain that difference to when they PM me asking me to make them a config for X plugin. Honestly, you could offer me $50 to make a ShopGUI config and I'd turn it down. I hate that kind of work.
I won't deny that people who configure servers are definitely skilled, somewhat. I'd personally label them as "Server Developers", and people who make plugins "Plugin Developers".
Edit: Aaaaand I just realised this was a necro. My bad.
Yeah huuuuge difference haha
I know the opinion of everyone has been given here, but I want to rant it out a bit too lmao...
In Minecraft terms, a developer will make a mod from scratch and put probably around about 1 to over hundreds of hours in to creating it, and then they will create a configuration file for other individuals (configurators) to configure the mod using that file.
So a developer and configurator have two very different roles, infact, a configurator cannot even do what their title suggests without a developer first creating the mod.
Furthermore, a configurator in my eyes doesn't even deserve a title. No random person (including myself) could just decide to make a mod, they need to have the skills and time to do this and then they get the deserved title of developer. A configurator on the other hand only has to follow the instructions in plain text that the mods developer created, I could literally call myself a configurator just because I followed the instructions that a developer has literally already put out there.
In Minecraft terms, a developer will make a mod from scratch and put probably around about 1 to over hundreds of hours in to creating it, and then they will create a configuration file for other individuals (configurators) to configure the mod using that file.
So a developer and configurator have two very different roles, infact, a configurator cannot even do what their title suggests without a developer first creating the mod.
Furthermore, a configurator in my eyes doesn't even deserve a title. No random person (including myself) could just decide to make a mod, they need to have the skills and time to do this and then they get the deserved title of developer. A configurator on the other hand only has to follow the instructions in plain text that the mods developer created, I could literally call myself a configurator just because I followed the instructions that a developer has literally already put out there.
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