• erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It is 2023 my brother in christ! We deserve better error outputs than a stack trace.

    1. Tell me what line in my file caused the error,
    2. Tell me the values of the variables involved,
    3. Then you can have the stack trace.

    Why are we pretending like these error messages are acceptable in 2023?!

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      1 year ago
      so said EVELYN the modified DOG
      

      (This is not just a Zappa quote, but an actual error description from the Small Device C Compiler.)

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      1 year ago

      Tell me the values of the variables involved,

      There be dragons! Sounds like a good way to get passwords/secrets logged.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t tell if that was sarcasm or not. If it was, you got me. If it wasn’t, then that’s quite a big lack of understanding of what’s actually happening.