What is the nightmare for programmers?

Introduction

The struggle of being a programmer is understood by none other than another programmer. We came across a lot of problems all day long and we have to overcome each and every obstacle.

So today, I would love us to share things that a coder/programmer hates to encounter?

My thoughts

As a coder/programer I hate following things to encounter

• No Network🌐
• Stuck on one problem that takes a lot of time to get solve😨
• Can't execute the program that I found on the web▶️

Discuss

• What you hate most as a Programmer?
• Nightmare for you as a Programmer?

Comments

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

What you hate most as a Programmer?

• Having to read code where someone was trying to be smart.

• The "programming is just Ctrl+C Ctrl+V" meme.

• Confused languages that think they're C when they're not.

• Object-Oriented Programming taken too far.

• PHP

Nightmare as a Programmer?

Simplifying poorly-written complex code with an equivalent but simpler expression, only to find out after deploying to production that it wasn't equivalent.

[Michel Renaud]

"Having to read code where someone was trying to be smart"

So much this! After figuring it out, I'll think "well, that's pretty cool and clever". But then I will likely change it to something more readable because, more often than not, cleverness = maintenance nightmare.

Oh and, I've often been too clever myself for my own good. Go back into some piece of codes a couple of weeks later, come across "me being clever the other day" and going, "WTF does this do?"

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

Yess a clear code is what we want

[dastasoft]

+1 to all the bullets lol

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

🤣🤣

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

PHP??

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

PHP.

[cubiclesocial]

PHP is better as a command-line language than a web language.

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

Okay, I am a newbie to PHP.

[Art Boer]

Things on my hate list

• Still having to support IE in 2021
• Being forced to work with knockout.js and the great UiComponents in Magento :-(
• Remote XDebug
• Forgetting to flush redis or restart varnish and asking myself why the changes do not appear
• Working in a framework that most of the maintainers (or all) don't really understand, Looking at you once again Magento
• PHP, before typed properties and return types weren't a thing.. Thank god we have this now

[Eljay-Adobe]

Edge. It's been Edge for a long while now. Edge!

I worked on IE 10 and IE 11, at Microsoft. I was surprised — and ecstatic — when Edge went live. Even many of us on working on IE didn't know about the Edge project in the works until it went public.

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

Hope your list get smaller over the time

[RobertSeidler]

I'm confident, that at some point IE users die out :D

[Rishit Khandelwal]

When you can't find solution to a problem any where in the internet.

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

This is epic level of frustration

[Eljay-Adobe]

Nightmare:

Hit '2' instead of '1'. Where 1 was "make a backup", and 2 was "restore backup". And there was no feedback that a restore was happening rather than a backup.

And it was for year end processing of all the accounting data.

Unfortunately, this nightmare scenario happened for real. Almost 40 years ago, and still haunts my nightmares.

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

Yessss they don't specify things

[HAP]

These fall under both categories:

• Being forced to use the wrong tool for the job
• Not getting good feedback during your career and having your legs kicked out from under you once you do get good feedback
• Configuring JVMs and poor java app documentation
• Too much meta magic in Python with too little documentation
• ORMs that never support the database functionality you need
• Programming practices that encourage poor resource utilization when using ORMs that mask the resource management.
• Ignoring tweaks to existing technologies in favor of over-engineered solutions that are often difficult to setup, integrate, or end up brittle.

[Pierre Olivier TRAN]

What I hate most:

• Uncommented bad code
• Network issues
• Haphazardous deployment

I work with 3 teams, one of them is based in the Bay area, another one in Vietnam, mine's in Paris. SF Team and mine are mostly senior devs, so we have access to push to production in case of emergency.

And for one of the US devs, it seems like a fckin CSS issue is an emergency. Dude branches out from master, to write some working code, without commenting or testing.

And we told him countless times to respect the chain of command, but still, he doesn't care, and bosses won't change a thing, because "Hey, most of the time, it works"

[Josh]

What you hate most as a Programmer?

1. When my IDE takes too long to recognize the code am writing, so you end up writing without intelliscence 😪.
2. Not being able to find the solution to the problem anywhere on the internet.
3. Going to a dependencies issues section on github and finding my issue and it says "OPEN".

Nightmare

1. Working on a feature for a long time then being told it was not necessary, due to some client change/request.
2. Having so much to do to the point where my personal goals as a developer fades into the past.

[Darsh]

QUESTION :- What you hate most as a programmer ?
ANSWER :-
Hating levels
• 00 -- 25 = 😠
• 25 -- 50 = 😡
• 50 -- 75 = 😈
• 75 --.100 = 😫
What I hate are
• No network = 😈
• Bugs in code = 😠
QUESTION :- Nightmare for you as a programmer ?
ANSWER :-
Nightmare levels
• 00 -- 25 = 😠
• 25 -- 50 = 😡
• 50 -- 75 = 😈
• 75 --.100 = 😫
My nightmares are
• Code compiling failure = 😈
• likage of secret codes for a very big project = 😠

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

All the point is very frustrating while you try to be in good mood.

[Darsh]

Can we talk in dev.to connect for that follow me please and send me a massege please and i am going for some work i will be online in half an hour so dont worry if i dont reply at dev.to connect

[Tunji Ayodeji]

Testing

[Suraj Vishwakarma]

Yep that can be

[cubiclesocial]

I don't like symbol soup (e.g. \\<?) because I can't easily search for symbols. Most languages are moving away from verbosity towards a greater use of symbols each and every day, which makes me sad. I wouldn't say I hate it or that it is a nightmare though but it does make it harder for people to get into programming.