• magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    For some it is. For others it being able to remove barriers and obstacles to create a new website you’ve been wanting to.

    You’ve used it once 2+ years ago and wrote it off completely. Do you also still do your laundry with a wasboard and clothesline?

    Okay but one of those is an artform and the other is physical labor.

    Programming doesn’t really equate to physical labor like that.

    • JohnnyMac@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      No, but it helps design. How big of a box. What vegetables thrive together. What ones should be kept apart. What spacing. How much root depth. Can ground hogs get at it. Here look at this picture. Looks like a tomator disease, what do you think?

      Programming equates to architecture. It equates to system design. You can have good (non-sycophantic) conversations about what, why, push back when it’s wrong, agree when it’s right.

      And if it’s for a personal project, then for some people the labor and the learning is the value. For others maybe it’s showing the end product to their 6year old that dreamt of a game where a dolphin was flying in space with ninjas trying to attack it.