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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?
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.
But the term isn't used for technology outside of software companies, for example, mechanical and electrical engineering
There's tech companies that don't work with software
Such as?
Anything hardware related that doesn't program in-house, by definition.
Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.
But the question was why
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"