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I Wish I Never Learned to Code

Tyler Hawkins on October 26, 2020

I write code for a living. You might say I'm a professional software engineer, but really software engineering is much more than just a profession ...
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Rafael Alberti Cantoni Augusto

Tyler, you've managed to sum up all the feelings that I have on a daily basis. It's funny how we go from "I hate this thing" to "that's fantastic" in a matter of minutes.
But, in the end, we end up enjoying the process... even with something like a decade dealing with the software area.

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Abhijit Hota

This. 👏👏

Although I'm curious to know who are those people who are stuck using IE?

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Tyler Hawkins

In my experience, it's often been large corporations that have been around for a long time. At my current company, IE users make up about 10% of our customer user base, which is way higher than the global averages of 2-4%, which is really interesting.

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Dave

We currently use a Preventive Maintenance program at work to track work orders and PM's. It is a Four Rivers product called TMS. It only runs on Internet Explorer because it is a Java Web App and TMS won't update it.

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Jeroen Goddijn

Usually larger corporations that are running (older versions of) SAP or other outdated backend systems that only work properly (or: 'as expected') in IE.
Most likely because they have no need to upgrade to latest version and the insanely high invoice that comes with that.

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Ivan Jeremic • Edited

All companies still in 2020 use it all over Europe, very sad but true.

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Abhijit Hota

Thanks to everyone who replied for the insights! I really did not think IE still holds a share this big.

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ItsThatHexagonGuy

While at work today, I ragequit while writing some styles (not really good at it) and told myself I'll never write a single line of CSS again, then after about 5 minutes it clicked and I was just happy to continue. Developers go through this cycle often, and some frequently than others :) Happens to the best of us

Thanks for the post!

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Michael Currin • Edited

I got fed up with the new ES6 syntax, callbacks vs promises vs async, choices in compilers like Babel, JSX, and things like fn.bind andfn.call... I gave up reading JS articles and writing new JS code.

I'm still upset with how much one has to know about JS. Which is a barrier for learning and using it.
I'm trying to use JS more as a tool to solve problems rather than something to get frustrated at in an attempt to master.

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Mark Smith

Nice article, well balanced and pleasant read, I’d say your not just a writer of code.

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Tyler Hawkins

Thank you Mark! That’s a high compliment. :)

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Mike Hewitt

I have to say that you probably mean 'you are' ! I liked the main post but lots of errors creep into code when our in built compiler aka brain does not spot these errors. I love coding too...

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Mark Smith

Yep - thanks for the typo correction Mike

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ZDev1Official

I like the internet meme

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Andrew Clayton

To answer the important question!

tabs, vim, firefox

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Agathe Badia

A lot of developers can relate to each point you shared. Thanks for sharing! As a junior developer, it helps a lot to read that from experienced ones :)

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Alex Smith

My thoughts exactly! Particularly on the merits of different agile methodologies 😂

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🎧Cirphrank👣

Splendid read.

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Tyler Hawkins

Thank you!

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Karl Krasnowsky

You had me at "Sometimes I wish I never learned to code."

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Phong Duong

Your post is interesting. I like the meme of continuous learning. I laugh a lot. By the way "I also write JS for a living but I don't cry"

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Heiko Kanzler 🇪🇺

I never owned a hoody and I am 50 now :-(

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more-urgent-jest

it's not too late.

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Carlos Azuaje

Relax dude, god hahahaha

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Michael Currin

Indeed. I heard that most of our IE customers are in hospitals

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László Károlyi

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