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For me, the biggest pain point is usually setting up a working development environment and other infrastructure, which is often hampered by poor documentation. Sometimes the documentation is really good for one of the ways to use some library/framework/service, but not so good if you have a slightly unconventional use case and then you get stuck.

Programming an application in any random programming language isn't usually too hard when you're handed a perfectly working environment and just need to build the business logic. Most websites don't take some crazy LeetCode skills to build. But getting to the stage where you have a working environment isn't always trivial even in this age of containers and all kinds of build tools.

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