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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste.

Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue?

SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD 'date' TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, "Ain't no way." as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix?

SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

Moral of the story, don't become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, and there's at last 2 other ways to do it too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but they use ersatz methods that are so incredibly obscure and removed from the standard library that expecting one to know them is beyond foolhardy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No clue what that means. I was thinking more along the lines of how there's 3+ techniques for async functions. Or that there's a handful of syntax implementations, versions, and supersets of the language. Or that there are many interpreters all with different standard libraries and quirks.

It's an annoyingly flexible language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It just feels like anarchy to me. Why is anything the way it is in JS? Maybe I'm learning it wrong, but starting from zero, I now feel like I understand less than nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mostly its this way because the language has evolved over time and relies heavily on several similar but competing interpretations of how things should be done. Similar thing happened to PHP, back in the web1 days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That makes sense. Every time I try to learn it, or am asked to do something in it only to reply "I can't", I feel so fucking stupid. How am I supposed to move up to senior SWE if I can't do JS?