Can you be a web and desktop developer at the same time?

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Published on 2012-09-01T17:17:40Z Indexed on 2012/09/01 21:49 UTC
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In my environment, I found web programmers, desktop programmers and both web and desktop programmers.

About myself I started my career with desktop development using C and then Java, did couple of simple level projects. Then at the final graduating year, my project was a web one, so I turned to web development until this moment.

But, when I meet people having chosen to be web or software developers from the beginning, I figure out that they have more knowledge/experience than I have. So I get kind of regret why didn't I specialize my self from the first day?

The question is:

Is it a good habit to work at two, more or less, different fields: web and desktop? Or we must specialize ourselves?

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