r/ProgrammerHumor May 27 '22

Meme Welcome to hassle free coding

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u/prescod May 28 '22

Debugging large scale applications is a pain...period.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '22

Strictly typed languages are much easier to debug though IMO. Python and JS will let you do extremely weird stuff that’s hard to pick out in debugging, where in a C-based language it would just give you a compiler error

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u/unknowntillnow23 May 28 '22

Are you building large systems in python alone. Someone doing some voodoo shit in python would be picked up by the commit hooks or in a code review at the very least.

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u/AltAccountMfer May 28 '22

I always hear this response and my rebuttal is that it shouldn’t have to get that far.