600 People Have Answered: Coding is hard but ______ is harder.
Tags: codenewbie, learning
Published: 2021-04-25 08:47:13

A few days ago I asked on Twitter what is harder than coding. My answer would be poverty, raising children (although I'm not a parent), communication, etc.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;Coding is hard but ____________ is harder&quot;<br><br>Fill the blank<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEVCommunity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DEVCommunity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CodeNewbies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CodeNewbies</a></p>&mdash; Eleftheria Batsou (@BatsouElef) <a href="https://twitter.com/BatsouElef/status/1384422081656406017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Let's see how other people felt.

# Life - coding is hard but...

![codingKids.jpg](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1619338353274/w-olrx9sr.jpeg)

- Poverty / Being broke is harder.
- Raising kids/ Raising teenagers / The parenthood.
- Giving birth is harder.
- Adulting.
- Human interaction.
- Dealing with idiots online / Dealing with people / Dealing with clients.
- Trusting people.
- Building an actual product is harder.
- The amount of things you need to learn to become good enough to get a job.
- Finding a job is / Landing a job (<- I got many answers like this).
- Giving up.
- Bricklaying is one of those jobs that looks so easy but is actually very difficult.
- Life is harder.


# Work- coding is hard but...

![codingCommunication.jpg](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1619338380685/LlNAdD35W.jpeg)

- Problem-solving is harder
- Coding is hard but scrum daily is harder.
- Deployment / Documenting / Designing / Testing (<- I got many answers for these).
- Algorithms/maths.
- Explaining something that sounds super obvious and simple to you as an experienced dev, to a newbie who's just starting out in the field.
- Reading others’ codes.
- Finding error when code compiles successfully.
- Thinking about how my portfolio design will be is harder.
- Getting really damn good in it is harder / Quality coding is harder.
- Clean Coding.
- Resolving merge conflicts.
- Refactoring (<- I got many answers like this).
- Not coding (<- I got many answers like this).
- Debugging / Debugging other's code (<- I got many answers like this).


# Fun - coding is hard but...

![Codingdating.jpg](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1619338514072/JLX9qJgNL.jpeg)

- Finding a girl who is good at programming, sarcasm and watches anime!!
- Finding a partner / Dating.
- Convincing people that you cannot hack into their ex's account- is harder (<- ok, that made me laugh!).
- Watching your crush's boyfriend code.
- Coding is hard but filling the blank is harder...
- Trying to talk to literally anyone in my fam about coding.
- Maintaining social life while coding as a profession is harder ( <- well, I'm not sure if this is actually fun or not!)
- Naming methods / variables.
- Not getting coding-related jokes is harder.
- Learning Russian.
- Trying to sleep without solving the problem.
- Painting every room in your house.
- Watching Sebastian Vettel on a podium in 2021.



I'm afraid I couldn't include all the answers as more than 600 people answered me (thank you), but I tried to include the most common answers. Feel free to check the rest of them on  [Twitter](https://twitter.com/BatsouElef/status/1384422081656406017). Thank you everyone for participating :).

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