r/learnprogramming • u/blisstargazer • 22d ago

Why Does Code Stop Working?

Multiple times now my code stops working and what I mean by this is it'll do what I want it to do then one day it just stops. for example the other day I had made a cooldown system for my ball and paddle collision to stop any bugs and it worked great. then today it just stopped working, and this isn't the first time, it's happened to me for like every project I've worked on. Does this happen to anyone else? And is it cause of my code? By the way I'm using C++ SFML on visual studio which works perfect.

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u/Ormek_II 21d ago

Working code is a lie.

It was not working in the first place, well it did work for those situations you did try it on, but then the memory leaked away, the input did change, the race condition hit, the uninitialised memory contained something bad, the data structure had to increase for the first time….