Two Hours to Find One Typo

Error on line 119, position 22. Line 119 is blank. Actual error is a ( instead of a { 8 lines and 2 hours later. 2 hours to find a wrong (? You use Notepad as an IDE or something? At least 90 minutes are the coffee breaks to deal with the stress.

A dark-mode Reddit-style comment thread jokes about spending two hours debugging a tiny syntax error caused by using a parenthesis instead of a curly brace. The replies tease the programmer for using Notepad as an IDE and explain that most of the time was spent taking coffee breaks to cope with the stress. It is shared as a reaction to frustrating debugging, trivial mistakes, and unexpectedly long programming problems.

• @profunctor_io / 4504 2020-04-26