What is a pain to work with?

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What language, platform, framework, or whatever do you find a pain in the butt to work with?
 
I tried using Node.js last week. It's definitely not an intuitive platform to use unless you're really experienced in JavaScript (which I'm not), and it seems like even simple tasks take hours to complete. If you just want to create a traditional type of website (like a blog, forum, etc.), other platforms are much easier to program with.
 
Python and PHP are quite a pain to work with unless you learn them, which takes a long time for me. I am starting to learn them both.
 
int0x10 said:
I tried using Node.js last week. It's definitely not an intuitive platform to use unless you're really experienced in JavaScript (which I'm not), and it seems like even simple tasks take hours to complete. If you just want to create a traditional type of website (like a blog, forum, etc.), other platforms are much easier to program with.
I've heard this from quite a few people. 😛 Maybe a dumb question, but what alternatives are there and how do they compare in difficulty?

xXInfectedXx said:
Python and PHP are quite a pain to work with unless you learn them, which takes a long time for me. I am starting to learn them both.
I guess you could say the same about anything you're unfamiliar with though, huh? Hahaha.
 
I "attempted" to learn CSS and JS; however for me it was pretty difficult and CSS certainly was a pain. However most people breeze through CSS so I assume I'm pretty much the only person that has those kind of difficulties.
 
Only because I have minimal knowledge of it, Javascript. Any time I try to mess with a script, it doesn't end well. I'm sure if I learned more of it and spent more time with it than it wouldn't be so bad.
 
PHP errors. After coding in Java for a while now, understanding and debugging PHP errors seems like a nightmare.
 
Thomje112 said:
I "attempted" to learn CSS and JS; however for me it was pretty difficult and CSS certainly was a pain. However most people breeze through CSS so I assume I'm pretty much the only person that has those kind of difficulties.

No. I second you. CSS is a pain!
 
pandaa said:
int0x10 said:
I tried using Node.js last week. It's definitely not an intuitive platform to use unless you're really experienced in JavaScript (which I'm not), and it seems like even simple tasks take hours to complete. If you just want to create a traditional type of website (like a blog, forum, etc.), other platforms are much easier to program with.
I've heard this from quite a few people. 😛 Maybe a dumb question, but what alternatives are there and how do they compare in difficulty?

I tried Django (which uses Python) after giving up with Node.js and I instantly loved it much more, it seems much more intuitive (though I suppose it'd be fairer to compare Node.js with Sails.js and Django, but that's not the point, most people just want a platform that they can pick up and use easily, and Node isn't that 😛).
 
Saru said:
Thomje112 said:
I "attempted" to learn CSS and JS; however for me it was pretty difficult and CSS certainly was a pain. However most people breeze through CSS so I assume I'm pretty much the only person that has those kind of difficulties.

No. I second you. CSS is a pain!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does not care for CSS. Haha.
 
I had to write a program in Prolog as an assignment once! *Cosmic shudders*

In general, I think the one thing I have to work with that I don't want to is C#. I respect it as a language, and I know that a lot of my coworkers deal with this on a regular basis, but it's still danged unfamiliar, you know what I mean? It's kind of in that zone where it's close enough to Java to be comfortable, but so close, that it's kind of disconcerting. Also, Visual Studios is a pain to be honest.
 
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