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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.
Coding sounds trivial. And it's a gateway term to "vibe coding".