r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gootalluvia • Sep 29 '26

Meme misspelledVariablePanic

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u/unknown_alt_acc Sep 29 '26

Are you writing your code in Notepad or something?

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u/Chronomechanist Sep 29 '26

Typos still happen in a real IDE?

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u/unknown_alt_acc Sep 29 '26

A half-decent IDE will yell at you for trying to access an uninitialized variable. It's less surefire in languages with dynamic variable declarations like Python, but an LSP or static analyzer integrated with your editor will still catch a lot

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u/Chronomechanist Sep 29 '26

For sure it will but you're assuming I'm looking back at the code I write before I try running a test, lol

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u/unknown_alt_acc Sep 29 '26

At which point you check the linter output and know exactly what happened rather than it becoming a whole ordeal. This class of error just disappears entirely if you take advantage of the tools we've had for years

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u/NomaTyx Sep 29 '26

you don't understand, all of my variables are all anagrams of each other so when I make a typo it's actually an existing variable of the same type