A few days ago I asked on Twitter what is harder than coding. My answer would be poverty, raising children (although I'm not a parent), communication, etc.

Let's see how other people felt.

Life - coding is hard but...

• ► Poverty / Being broke is harder.
• ► Raising kids/ Raising teenagers / The parenthood.
• ► Giving birth is harder.
• ► Adulting.
• ► Human interaction.
• ► Dealing with idiots online / Dealing with people / Dealing with clients.
• ► Trusting people.
• ► Building an actual product is harder.
• ► The amount of things you need to learn to become good enough to get a job.
• ► Finding a job is / Landing a job (<- I got many answers like this).
• ► Giving up.
• ► Bricklaying is one of those jobs that looks so easy but is actually very difficult.
• ► Life is harder.

Work- coding is hard but...

• ► Problem-solving is harder
• ► Coding is hard but scrum daily is harder.
• ► Deployment / Documenting / Designing / Testing (<- I got many answers for these).
• ► Algorithms/maths.
• ► Explaining something that sounds super obvious and simple to you as an experienced dev, to a newbie who's just starting out in the field.
• ► Reading others’ codes.
• ► Finding error when code compiles successfully.
• ► Thinking about how my portfolio design will be is harder.
• ► Getting really damn good in it is harder / Quality coding is harder.
• ► Clean Coding.
• ► Resolving merge conflicts.
• ► Refactoring (<- I got many answers like this).
• ► Not coding (<- I got many answers like this).
• ► Debugging / Debugging other's code (<- I got many answers like this).

Fun - coding is hard but...

• ► Finding a girl who is good at programming, sarcasm and watches anime!!
• ► Finding a partner / Dating.
• ► Convincing people that you cannot hack into their ex's account- is harder (<- ok, that made me laugh!).
• ► Watching your crush's boyfriend code.
• ► Coding is hard but filling the blank is harder...
• ► Trying to talk to literally anyone in my fam about coding.
• ► Maintaining social life while coding as a profession is harder ( <- well, I'm not sure if this is actually fun or not!)
• ► Naming methods / variables.
• ► Not getting coding-related jokes is harder.
• ► Learning Russian.
• ► Trying to sleep without solving the problem.
• ► Painting every room in your house.
• ► Watching Sebastian Vettel on a podium in 2021.
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I'm afraid I couldn't include all the answers as more than 600 people answered me (thank you), but I tried to include the most common answers. Feel free to check the rest of them on Twitter. Thank you everyone for participating :).

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