Programmer Pain Chart ( lemmy.world )

Despite the obvious levity, this is actually serious. It was made by why the lucky stiff, a pretty prominent member of Ruby community, back in the day. This, however, was part of his mysterious burnout manifesto, for lack of better term. He really really bloody needed a break.

"programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."

CaptPretentious ,

I was building up some packer stuff. Vsphere-iso plug-in. Tests were going fine and then for reasons I didn't understand it said it could no longer find the cd creation tool it has just been using.

So I try a few things, nothing works. So I figure I have nothing to lose, I make a new folder to house all the tools in one place. Update Windows system environment path. Restart everything. VScode didn't have my path statement, Google is of 0 fucking help, and now packer doesn't work. I least it's the weekend now.

redcalcium ,

the tests are now larger than the thing itself

The purpose of the code is to make the tests pass.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

The purpose of code is to solve a problem but don't tell that to the newbies or they reduce the PHP codebase you spend full time managing to 10% that in Rust and take your job.

nullPointer ,

50,000? thems rookie numbers.

Celofyz ,

I always tought that it's a norm to have more code in tests than in tested program

SpaceNoodle , (edited )

Documentation should be larger than code.

Tests as well.

umbraroze OP ,

Tests as well.

In most programming languages, yes.

In Ruby? ...eeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh.

SpaceNoodle ,

Programming, not Ruby.

xmunk ,

Where does "Suddenly realizing why they call it DLL hell" fall on the scale?

nyan ,

Between "One too many nulls" and "The tests are larger . . ." in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you've been wrestling with it.

Toes ,
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Where does maintaining a 25MB perl script fall into.

nxdefiant ,

💀

InnerScientist ,

EOL

JohnWorks ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/fee06111-e2d3-4b76-93be-af3c3441c10c.gif

camr_on ,
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My condolences

PlexSheep ,

I think that's larger than my kernel binary.

Kerb ,
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into depression i guess

tyler ,

I miss why... he was what everyone really needed, and the industry destroyed him. I haven't seen anyone like him since.

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