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In my work I can be writing C++, or PHP or Javascript, depending on what part of the stack I'm working on. C++ bugs are a bit hard to find, because the error m
by Shorel 10y ago
In my work I can be writing C++, or PHP or Javascript, depending on what part of the stack I'm working on.
C++ bugs are a bit hard to find, because the error messages are not very useful, so I launch the debugger, do a stack trace that fills the screen with arcane texts, then open the relevant source file in the line pointed by the debugger, and after about a minute of staring at that line and thinking, the bug is fixed.
In comparison to modern C++, JavaScript issues are complex beasts that can eat all your morning and give nothing in return. And then you test with another browser and it starts all over again.
Even so, some things like detecting the decimal separator supported by your operating system work in IE and Mozilla but were never implemented in Chrome, so you can't never really fix that 'bug'.