Serious question. We had a perfectly serviceable word, yet everyone decided to shift. Is it just that it’s shorter to type?

If so, I feel for your colleagues trying to parse your code when all your variables use abbreviations.

  • AbelianGrape@beehaw.org
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    14 days ago

    In my personal experience, “coding” has been used as long as I can remember, but took over as the dominating term maybe 8-12 years ago.

    I also prefer to say programming still. Coding sounds weird to me because it has its own separate (though certainly related) meanings.

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      14 days ago

      Coding sounds trivial. And it’s a gateway term to “vibe coding”.