Is there anything worth coding?

>>60983481
>Is there anything worth coding?
scratch your own itch.

>>60983481
embedded c

have fun writing the universe from scratch

>>60983481
oh yeah also i think you're depressed on the inside so coding won't help.


try something completely different

>>60983496
This tbqh.
Right now I'm writing a language for PSG-like music generation. I don't expect anyone else to use it, and in a few months I probably won't care about it anymore, but it's fun.

>>60983481
the codemonkey struggle

>>60983481
Make something related to a hobby, or something that interests you.

>>60983481
It sounds like you are depressed. Head on to /adv/

>>60974102

Contribute to existing projects that you want to succeed like a linux distro (I'd personally choose solus) or indeed netrunner.

Find the most useless language that intrests you and just have fun.

>>60983481
>since all those markets are taken over
if this is all you ever think about, you've already lost. A great program, even if it's in the domain of a much more popular program, will always look great on your resume.

There's also a great amount of proprietary programs for which there's demand for a free (as in freedom) alternative that hasn't been made yet. This is how Krita and Blender got so popular. It's short sighted to think that everything has been made already.

>>60983481
>all those markets are taken over
Are you joking? All the web browsers, image editors, and document editors out there are all shit. And the OSes are shit. Most websites and games are shit too. I'm learning to become a programmer because I feel like everyone else is doing a garbage job.

Think of a friend or relative who's really into something, the weirder and more interesting the better, but it could be just a workaholic, it's ok. Now spend lots of time with him. You will soon realize how much time he wastes doing stressful, repetitive, even hazardous things that could be automated. He will never in a million years imagine this and won't believe anything you say, so just code whatever he need to improve his workflow. He will think you are sme sort of demigod. Depression and burnout solved.

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its been over 50 years since people starting programming software. most of the essential programs have been done to death and its all free now so theres little money to be made on stand alone applications. If you want money you have to look into SaaS.

Otherwise i am guessing people code just as a hobby ,they're working on a side project outside their fulltime job and not looking to get rewarded or anything.

>have too many ideas to code
>not enough time or motivation to code them.

>>60983496
This. Most of my projects start out as scripts I make for myself, or just cool ideas.

Code what you want, not what you think you should. Good apps come from passion, focus on enjoying it and something will stick eventually

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I think not what you said, OP, but I hope this is useful for someone

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>>60984392
>I think it's not

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>>60984427

I made a small program to sort the tags and folder structure of music I downloaded.

Now I'm making a game to play poker with other players, across the net, and then an AI for it.

Maybe if you follow programming related blogs etc you'll get some inspiration

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>>60984436
Bonus: Make something to manage these challenges, where you can tick the ones you've finished or something like that.
Hard mode: Use OCR to input the challenges to your system. Categorize it by theme and/or difficulty.

>>60984443
How can I find such blogs?

>>60983496

Holy shit this is good advice.

>>60984488
Well a good starting point is hacker news, as autistic as some of the people there are, cool projects are linked there quite often.

>>60983481
Create a viable FOSS alternative to Solidworks.

>>60983481
Code a UI for Linux that doesn't suck dick.

>Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
- Charles Duell, 1899.

The coding part is easy. Getting a good idea is hard.

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>Games are out the question for me, since I suck at art.
Why would that matter?

>>60983481
Javascript for full stack web apps
It's the future dawg

>>60986377
but dorf fort is a minimal artistic masterpiece

>>60986377
That myth system and world generation can be considered art.
Still no multithreading tho.

>>60983481
OP Your post signifies exactly why I didn't stick with programming myself, I had the exact same thoughts.

You're not alone.

>>60983496
I thought /g/ hated scratch.

>>60983481
Fix that poorly coded emulator.

>>60983481
>>60986525
Yep know this feel, by the time I was 30 I told myself I'd be working on my own projects full time. I'm now 31 and still just tinkering on my own time while I build more CRUD apps for the man.

I think half the problem is I see most people trying to build the next Uber for Pets dot com and I wonder if all the excitement has gone out of software dev.

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>>60983481
get involved politically
work on FOSS projects
help everybody get control over their computing
achieve full software justice

>>60983481
There are dozens of programs people use only because there is no good alternative for them, how can you use computer enough to learn programing and still ask question like this?

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>>60983481
Sounds like a typical case of "I only know the software industry". There are millions of interesting problems out there to be solved but the cool software blogs and news don't talk about them so they don't exist

>>60986813
That's a really good advice. If you don't have the idea of the century, just write free software that's better than the proprietary (not hard in a lot of domains). You'll have created something actually useful.

>>60987063
I've always thought that the "software industry" itself is boring as fuck, circlejerking on the silicon valley and on how to solve everyone's problems by creating another fucking chat app.

Go find a job in something only tangentially related to software. An actually useful and interesting industry in need of programmers.

>>60986813
>GNU/Lawyers buttraping Applel

Only if. But they actively phasing out as much GPLd software from OSX as they can and make/invest in permissive license shit like LLVM so it's the dum goyim who works for the FOR FREE.

>>60983481
I like making bots and trainers for online and offline games.
It's fun and you will actually have a use for it. Just run it yourself and get ingame-rich.
Other people would have a lot of use for it too, but whether you want to release it is a moral problem. You'll be responsible for the bots/"hacks" and when the company takes action you will probably get banned yourself.
But anyway, automating stuff in general is pretty fun and useful.

>>60983481
I wish there was a non-shit gimp.