How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
While I somewhat admire the author feelings, as a direct answer to the chosen title, I have to say I don&#x27;t share them at all. I view programming with a mix of indifference and boredom and the sad few years I had to do it as a job are easily the less fulfilling of my life.<p>If I had to sum up my feelings regarding programming, I would say it is:
- a lot of uninteresting busy work;
- intellectually mostly unchallenging. The few parts that are actually interesting are maths and if I wanted to maths I personally find that there are more interesting problems to solve in parts of maths not related to programming. I don&#x27;t remember ever feeling any joy after completing a piece of software;
- extremely isolating;
- both boring and infuriating to debug when it&#x27;s needed.<p>The only positive part was shipping something useful when it was finished.