I once spent three days debugging a single line of code. When I finally found the missing semicolon, my team praised me as a “coding wizard.”

0xDEADBEEFCAFE@programming.dev · 13 days ago

I once spent three days debugging a single line of code. When I finally found the missing semicolon, my team praised me as a “coding wizard.”

gnome@programming.dev · 13 days ago

“How much code have you done in this language” is wholly measured by what you can immediately show.

I was following you until here. What do you mean by “immediately show”? Genuinely asking here since I pivoted to software development from a different field and I’m still trying to make sense of the overarching culture.

I once spent three days debugging a single line of code. When I finally found the missing semicolon, my team praised me as a “coding wizard.”

I once spent three days debugging a single line of code. When I finally found the missing semicolon, my team praised me as a “coding wizard.”

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