The greatest programmer Decalogue

10 commandments of programming

Sebastian Opałczyński
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJun 27, 2021

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The enlightenment fire. (Picture by author)

1. You will pick one programming language

You will learn and master one programming language, you will stick to it, and you will claim things like: “Java is faster than Python”, “C is the best programming language”, can be applied to other tools and services too: “MySQL is much better than PostgreSQL”, “Vim is the best IDE out there”, “Why you should pick AWS instead of GCP”.

2. Thou shalt have no other programming languages before one

You will stay closed in your stack, without the will to understand other perspectives. You will develop bad CRUD applications, and let the front-end developers handle your mighty skill. You will implement filtering of hundreds of thousands of elements purely on the client app without questioning anything.

3. Remember to code on weekends ignoring your rest

You will work hard, you will be a hero who saves everyone and everything. You will ignore the pain, cause pain is for the weak. Your creativity will drop, cause it’s not needed, as you are already an expert.

4. Honor the technology, don’t talk about business

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Software engineer, technology enthusiast, common sense lover, serial co-founder, and a father of three.