# Coding

*Not to be confused with programming.*

Coding nowadays means low quality attempt at programming, usually practiced by soydevs and barely qualified coding monkeys. Coder is to programmer what a bricklayer is to architect. Coding is to programming what building houses in Minetest is to building real houses.

Traditionally coding meant encoding and decoding of information as in e.g. video coding -- this is the only non-gay meaning of the word