is there a difference between a programmer and a coder?

Question

I see people on the internet that says "same meaning different words " and "two different meanings".Don't know what to believe. is there a difference? Are the two words the same?

Answer 1

Most of the times, these two terms are interchangeable. However:

HTML, for example, is a markup language and not a programming language. If a person codes purely in HTML, and another person codes in C++, both of them are coders, but only one who codes in programming languages can be considered a programmer. A programmer creates programs. A coder writes codes.

Answer 2

A programmer is an inventor and a coder is an assembly line worker. Aprogrammer creates things, a coder follows instructions and assembles things. As Software Engineering becomes commodified, there is less demand for skilled programmers and more demand for coders. Coders are cheap,Programmers are expensive.