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When did programming become "coding"?
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In my personal experience, "coding" has been used as long as I can remember, but took over as the dominating term maybe 8-12 years ago.
I also prefer to say programming still. Coding sounds weird to me because it has its own separate (though certainly related) meanings.
It cold be regional or arbitrary. I say 'coding' a lot because it's shorter. I could say one is about the keyboard work and one is about the architecture and design, but it's really the fact that one's shorter.
But in my environment, they're interchangeable as much as anything can be. And I've grown up using both; even in college in the '90s, coding C and m68k.
YMMV?
Coding sounds trivial. And it's a gateway term to "vibe coding".