alt Hacker News> the actual programming is not the hard part
We've all been hearing that a lot and it's made a lot of people forget that, although programming might not be the hardest part, it's still hard.
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9rx • yesterday at 5:01 PM
What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard?
Determining what to program can be hard, but that was already considered earlier.
The only other place where I sometimes see it become hard for some people is where they treat programming as an art and are always going down crazy rabbit holes to chase their artistic vision. Although I would say that isn't so much that programming is hard, but rather art that is trying to push boundaries is hard. That is something that holds regardless of the artistic medium.
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Hard perhaps but it feels a lot easier now than three years ago. Or so my backlog of personal projects outside of my most familiar stack would suggest.