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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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Because even in those companies many of the ‘computer people’ are not software developers. Tech workers is a catch all term for most people at those companies.

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But the term isn’t used for technology outside of software companies, for example, mechanical and electrical engineering

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There’s tech companies that don’t work with software

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Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

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But the question was why

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Thanks for responding but that wasn’t the question

Machinists / mechanical engineering are technology workers, so are civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc, but only software gets called “tech”

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