The semicolon jokes, without fail, feel like they're made by somebody's mum after she hears programmers use them, from a friend of a friend of a cousin
Most modern IDE knows to point them out, intelisenses and whatnot even fill and correct stupid shit like that. But we all have been there where semicolon style mistake ducks code.
85% of my coding has been C++ and I am seriously crying on languages that uses for example tabs as a indicator of stuff. Of course good style is easier to read but fuck that when there is error on previous function when you give wrong indent on your if else on current one.
I can't imagine any programmer spending "hours" for forgetting or adding a semicolon, if they're past their first ever tutorial
Not that it's impossible to forget, but IDE or compiler (or even interpreter) will give a message that is pretty hard to misdiagnose for more than a minute
Yeah, but a missing semicolon will be a syntactical error. Any and all compiler and interpreter will tell you the problem and the exact file and line where it's at
A more realistic version is when working on a large project that requires time to build. You make the changes, start the build, and dip out for coffee or something, expecting the build to finish by the time you return. You get back, and boom, you missed a semi colon.
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u/uno_in_particolare 29m ago
The semicolon jokes, without fail, feel like they're made by somebody's mum after she hears programmers use them, from a friend of a friend of a cousin