August 21, 2024 03:11
One of the biggest issues about programming is that coding isn't enough. I love writing code, I love tackling a problem and writing a program that does a task I want, and figuring out how to optimize or have fun with it. However, programming is also about integrating tools together. Maybe you have some sort of backend running your code, or you're making some code which will embed in some other programming language, or you have to balance between multiple different apps.
And that sucks...
My biggest issue with all things like that is web dev. Because guess what? You wanna make a REST API? You wanna make a database integrated with that API? You wanna make a dynamic website that makes requests to that API that has access to the database? Guess what, doing all that is the easy part! Having all of that setup and running in your localhost is a smooth process, which follows by the absolute existential dread of figuring out how to make that public.