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by jfaucett 5113 days ago
For me it was (and still is) ORM, specifically Doctrine2. In principle it seems pathetically easy, but once the queries start getting immensely complicated ( Many-to-Many over multiple tables, with conditional form data, etc) I still find myself having to fallback to SQL.

Other contenders have been:

1. Bison ( tokens, parsing, syntax, was all difficult the first time around).

2. OpenGL because remebering function names for the api is RIDICULOUS! ahh glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance now what are the args again?