TLDR; Wrote an awesome piece of code, but there's no one capable of understanding how hard it is.

I spent an entire night building an insanely complicated automation script, that picks out certain configuration files (in javascript fml), does some crazy parsing to pick out strings, passes them into a free translation API, translates them, and does more insane parsing to insert those strings as javascript objects.

Spent 3 hours on the bloody parsing algorithm alone.

Manager: Oh this language is really nice. Good of you to discover it can do that.

I didn't "DISCOVER" it ffs! Its a product of my head! I built the damn algo from scratch.

Seriously, screw non devs who trivialize the complexities of writing a good program. Its NOT as simple as opening notepad and typing in

import {insanelyComplexSolution} from 'daveOnTheInternet'

ROFL @ closing line. 👍

I share the same frustration.

PO: "Right, so I just want this validation to show up when the user enters something wrong upon registration"

8 hours later..

PO: "What's the damn holdup? I thought I asked you to simply add a validation. How hard can it be? What's wrong with you?"

me: "Oh I don't know, maybe the fact that you're asking me to persist application state between containers during the passivation phase and I have to make sure that the data is serialized, deserialized and marshalled correctly? And I have to protect the variable scopes of all my involved controllers so that security stays in place? And many other things"

Evidently, this guy has zero knowledge of IT, yet enforces demands upon devs just because the PM is breathing down his neck about time constraints.

Instead of minding your agenda, how about minding code quality and good solutions instead of band-aid solutions!

I feel you