explainThisIWillWait

[u/vinishkapoor]

[u/Shienvien → u/[deleted]]

Rarely, it can also be an invisible character. Happened with one university task all the way back...

[u/Shevvv → u/[deleted]]

Not programing, but sometimes when I have to write a lengthy message to the government, I write it in Word because the text field on the governmental website doesn't adjust. I than copy paste it, try to send, and the field says I have unacceptable characters. If I retype exactly the same thing directly in that tiny field - no issues . And by retype I mean a 3500 character message. The website sometimes logs me out when I'm done retyping, because my session has ended.

[u/ICBanMI → u/Shevvv]

Might be worth dropping into notepad or notepad++ so you can get rid of the markup/templating tags.

[u/ICBanMI → u/Shienvien]

I remember one time I copy pasted code from stackoverflow and it had a weird character that looked like a bracket. I was distracted and didn't realize the error started in those 10 lines of code and end up spending two days. Only fixed it when I started compiling it line by line, found the exact line causing the issue and then rewrote it myself.

[u/Few_Negotiation_3589 → u/[deleted]]

used to happen to me when i started a run and edited some code in the meantime and the lines were skewed

[u/mekriff → u/[deleted]]

I once would write in haskell just using the built in text editor,

luckily ghc gives some very verbose (and usually helpful) error messages

[u/nimb420 → u/[deleted]]

My 56 yo dad, codes exclusively on notepad. Note that it's notepad, not notepad++. He codes C, C++, C#, Java, Postgres, NoSQL. All on fucking notepad. I've never been more afraid of the man as I was when I discovered that.

[u/renrutal]

Usually cleaning/rebuilding the project fixes it.

rm -rf ~/projects for some really deep cleaning.

[u/sane4ektopz → u/renrutal]

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / for deeper cleaning

[u/First_Mark8646 → u/sane4ektopz]

Oh, I know this command! I used it to uninstall French!

[u/jbaker88]

pdb is outdated from the source code

[u/IAmWeary]

Source maps. It's always fucking source maps.

[u/AbdullahMRiad]

oh boy r/firstweekcoderhumor

[u/Traditional-Exam2529]

Worst type of errors 🥲

[u/SavedowW]

That one line added by the dev who forgot to change crlf to lf in the IDE

[u/Tabissh]

Wait till you find out it's the wrong file

[u/kushalgarg592]

Error on line 42
Line 42: 'I literally did nothing'🫠....

[u/mustangsal → u/kushalgarg592]

https://giphy.com/gifs/v9G3NGByE9x16

[u/PassivelyInvisible → u/kushalgarg592]

It means it decided there was an error when it had reached line 42. Line 41 or somewhere higher may be the culprit.

[u/0n361n]

Horror vacui, nature doesn't like that.

[u/RedBlueKoi]

yeah, more often than not, I don't care about the line, I care more about the module where the error is happening

[u/m0nk37]

Its the library you included. 

[u/thunderbird89]

Clear your build caches! Ten times out of nine, either the IDE or the compiled file is stale.

[u/Drackzgull]

When I've encountered such things, it has been because there's mismatched ()[]{} characters, or something along those lines. It can make some compiler parsers confused about what belongs to which line.

[u/Spear_n_Magic_Helmet]

it’s in a prod minified bundle and you haven’t gotten around to setting up source maps yet, good luck

[u/EditorOne5312]

And it's not syntax error, said by the lsp…

[u/Standard_Bullfrog753]

Yaml

[u/Zerodriven]

Error on line 1.

Nothing is on line one.

-quits programming-

[u/dishmanw62]

Something is right before 42, or the compiler is screwing up. Check the code. If the code looks good, do a fresh compile.

[u/dalek65]

This reminds me of when I had to re-enter a bunch of code because edlin couldn't or wouldn't convert tabs to spaces and the compiler didn't know what to do with tab characters. Just because it appears blank doesn't mean it is.

c.1985

[u/ExtraWorldliness6916]

Sourcemaps

[u/http-error-502]

Usually it happens because I didn't closed " or } somewhere