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.

"Coding is hard but ____________ is harder"

Fill the blank#DEVCommunity #CodeNewbies

Eleftheria Batsou (@BatsouElef) April 20, 2021

Let's see how other people felt.

Life - coding is hard but...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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. Thank you everyone for participating :).

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