What is more interesting, database programming or web programming?

Question

PHP

I get my first job and choose between two different areas: database programming (using the company's own language PL+) or website development in the 1C: Bitrix system.
While studying at the institute, I really liked writing SQL queries, but I didn’t like html / php at all.
Now I have studied both in more detail, and it seems to me that in SQL (even using PL +) you can do much less than in the web. And the deeper I dive into web development, learn css and javascript, the more it seems interesting to me.
What do you say? What do you think is more interesting?

Answer 1

More like the web

Answer 2

You will get about a dozen answers to the question in the title (since the average visitor to the toaster ru site is not able to master a text larger than a sentence), so I will not dwell on it.
If you answer the question in the body of the post, then run from both like the plague. Both "languages" are home-grown crafts that will hang like weights on your arms and legs, preventing you from developing and following modern programmer thought.
The same pokhape, properly cooked, does not cause any rejection - and all because since the time of the shit code from the last century, which you were taught at the institute, the development of languages ​​has stepped far forward. None of the popular tongues stood aside - everyone got new features, everyone's approach to development has changed, modern frameworks have appeared for everyone, everyone follows modern trends and ideas. Thanks to the fact that all these languages ​​are developed by the community around the world.
Here you have to understand that when you work in Pay-Plus, you are not working with a database, and not even with the industry standard PL/SQL, but with a "problem-oriented" handicraft fake. 1C: Bitrix among developers has long been a curse word. But that's not the main problem. And that both tools are doomed to stagnation and dying. Sitting down on proprietary development tools in the age of open source software is like burying yourself alive. No matter how unique the development may be, remaining in the hands of a single organization, it will horribly lag behind in development and, along with it, slow down developers.
So, if we talk about these technologies, then take on any job, as long as it consists in using css and javascript. Not because they are more interesting (for client development you need to have a special mindset leaning towards visual creativity), but because they are standard means by which you can always get help from the global community and which will always find work.

Answer 3

Working with a database usually comes down to adding and selecting records from tables. Here, too, there are many nuances, subtleties, techniques. But doing just that, in my opinion, is boring.
When developing sites on Bitrix, you will master PHP, HTML + CSS and JavaScript. Then you can develop this knowledge separately or together. You will have many possible development paths. Although Bitrix itself - I can not stand it.