Programming is not hard

I’m sure this will age like fine wine, but the title is obviously an allusion to Epic’s statement “programming is hard”, with which they justified their decision to fully vibe code a cross-platform Epic Games Store app. But it goes further than that even. In my life, I’ve so often heard people say “programming is hard”, “computers are hard”, “math is hard”, “physics is hard”. These are specific to my life’s choices, but I’m sure you’ve heard something similar. “Drawing is hard” or “knitting is hard”. Maybe “cooking is hard”. What is hard? There are two possibilities why people are saying this. The less toxic, but only slightly less dangerous one is, that people say it, because they are not confident in their learning skills. They look at something they would like to do, but lack natural talent and are not willing to put in the effort to learn it. Instead they justify their position with “but it’s haaaaaard”. I say they, but of course that’s me as well. I’ve said it more than enough,…