I personally never found "programming" difficult, the difficult part is understanding large systems and finding the correct abstractions and most of all communi

I personally never found "programming" difficult, the difficult part is understanding large systems and finding the correct abstractions and most of all communicating these thoughts to other programmers. If programming starts to feel difficult its usually because I failed in one of those other areas or was forced to work on legacy projects where other people failed to make the best decisions.