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> Why the hell do I have to write it by hand? It's slow and it's boring. Well, I stopped here. You are a programmer. Typing things into an IDE or terminal or w
by irrational 5y ago
> Why the hell do I have to write it by hand? It's slow and it's boring.
Well, I stopped here. You are a programmer. Typing things into an IDE or terminal or whatever is what you do. Personally I find it enjoyable. If you find typing to be slow and boring, maybe you should go through a speed typing course to learn to type faster.
- donmcronald 5y agoIf you tried something like SceneBuilder (JavaFX) you'd probably change your mind. At least for me, using a visual tool to do layouts saves a ton of time. Even if there's some fine tuning at the end, just being able to do the basic layout is some much easier with a GUI. It's the same as writing Markdown vs a GUI editor. Sure, I'm faster with Markdown for the simple stuff, but as soon as you want some tables you go find a GUI for it [1]. 1. https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables
- jillesvangurp 5y agoIf it's slow and boring, automate it. That's your job as a programmer. Repetitive work is ideally suited for automation. It's not about typing faster but being creative without getting bogged down by the keyboard. If what you do is mostly slow and boring, somebody will eventually automate it and you'll need to learn some new thing. The whole no-code movement is about taking the stuff that people do manually and automating it to the point that somebody without much training can do stuff with it. It's a logical outcome of this stuff being tedious and repetitive enough that it can be automated.