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Why is programming hard?

Jakub Kwaśniewski on May 29, 2021

The software engineer Why are you here? This one should be pretty obvious - it's a DEV community website, so you are here probably becau...
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Kuba P

Good post, totally agree :) It's also hard because "the right way" is different depending on the project architecture, style, technology... The right way for the web application written in .net as a modular monolith will be quite different to the right way of developing a desktop app or set of microservices, etc. On the other hand, it's never boring because of that :)

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jacekmlynek

Coding without writing a code sounds good to me :). What I want say is that in many cases I am missing proper care and thinking. Today we Dev mainly care how fast we can build app, integrate w azure, set up new DB. Stuff like proper problem/domain identification, choicing right option, testability and maintability are less important. Maybe because they are boring maybe because it is hard to build your CV with them, I am not sure. From my point of view I wish to see in your next posts more coding without code, more generic problem consideration, which based on your experience.

Cheers,
JM.