I come from an era when not liking your job was the way things were.
You could enjoy the social camaraderie, lunch and your paycheck.
The army did an excellent job of preparing me for that situation.
With all that said I do love programming the way it used to be.
You could often be allowed to write something pretty.
(From a pure code perspective)
At the uni. I had that freedom as well.
These days solutions usually surround using duct tape, plastic straws,
and a half-broken welder to force various components and 3rd party
APIs to work together, even though they are usually never designed to
work in that way.
Then a vendor changes its API, we need to connect to yet another service,
and some people who see resume padding as their biggest goal in life
will manage to throw the latest hyped products / frameworks / tool
into the mix.
It is a monumental task to write that code to be pretty.
A lot of software engineers care a lot more that we are using the
latest hotness than they do about making it pretty.
With all that said I do love programming the way it used to be. You could often be allowed to write something pretty. (From a pure code perspective)
At the uni. I had that freedom as well.
These days solutions usually surround using duct tape, plastic straws, and a half-broken welder to force various components and 3rd party APIs to work together, even though they are usually never designed to work in that way.
Then a vendor changes its API, we need to connect to yet another service, and some people who see resume padding as their biggest goal in life will manage to throw the latest hyped products / frameworks / tool into the mix.
It is a monumental task to write that code to be pretty.
A lot of software engineers care a lot more that we are using the latest hotness than they do about making it pretty.