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I google for exceptions and stack traces all the time. This person must be doing it wrong.

• deleted 13y ago
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• timr 13y ago
  You may search for things, but you probably overestimate the number of times you actually find anything relevant. Most of the time, you'll find a page about the exception class itself (fine; not very useful), or you'll repeat your search with something more specific, and get either nothing, or you'll get some blog post (or worse: forum question) talking about how someone once encountered an exception, without any relevant answer. What we're trying to do here is make it possible for people to search for exception messages, and find the code where those exceptions actually get raised. It's something I've wanted for a while, personally.
  • jsight 13y ago
    Maybe this should say that Ruby exceptions are hard to Google for? I search for Java Exceptions rather frequently, and frequently find good results.
    • timr 13y ago
      It's true that we're only Ruby (for now...), but I've had the same problems in every language I've ever used.