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Programming is actually hard af to do for any extended period of time (more than half an hour)
It requires such a specific mind that's drawn to all the detail oriented specific robotic parts of coding but almost all coders say coding is easy because the people whose mind don't fit coding already quit long ago
Yes I find coding hard and no I'm not coping
Actually programming being difficult might not be correct but more like programming is largely unbearable
Mandatory pull requests + approvals within a team are a waste of everyone's time.
Big hot take to me; especially in an organization with a large size and code high standard
Front end and back end are different enough that you can really specialize in one or the other. They take very different mindsets. I know how to make css obey, I don't know how to make sql performant. Its possible to have both, but not as well.
For every front-end dev, you need 3 back-end guys and a designer.
Programmers are not bad at our jobs, its just not a mature disclipline yet.
If you're not a programming superstar you can probably make more money writing nothing but Terraform code for hapless enterprises.
Python, and dynamically typed languages in general, are known as being great for beginners. However, I feel that while they’re fun for beginners, they should only be used if you really know what you’re doing, as the code can get messy real fast without some guard rails in place (static typing being a big one).
Good programmers need to be creative, flexible (soft skills with others), critical thinkers, and problem solvers. Lacking those kinds of features makes for a rigid and terrible programmer that is near impossible to work with or code behind. Leave the ego at the door.
The amount of unqualified people is staggering beginning with those who have no university education.
I find that S-expressions are the best syntax for programming languages. And in general infix operators are inferior to either prefix or postfix notation.
