My favorite compile error happened while I was taking a Haskell class.
ghc: panic! (the ‘impossible’ happened)
The issue is plainly stated, and it provides clear next steps to the developer.
I had a similar error, though not from the compiler
Error message just readthis should never happen
Ah, good old PlarformIO
Python: So you used spaces and tabs for indentation? NOW DIE!
Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.
And in Python, it’s merely a SyntaxCrime.
Find me anyone who claims they use tabs for indentation, and I bet I’ll find at least one case where they’re using both tabs and spaces.
The only safe way to avoid war crimes is to avoid tabs.
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs? Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…
Why would I use spaces if I use tabs?
To comply with Python’s best practices:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/
Also, if you work on the Linux Kernel, you’ll see a mix of tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390
Also, it seemd like a huge waste of time hitting the space bar so many times…
You use an editor that doesn’t auto-indent?
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I use vi without syntax highlighting.
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Don’t IDEs just replace any tab with 4 spaces anyways? Pretty sure VSCode does
That’s a setting in the editor.
I don’t use an ide, but I wrote a script that replaces any space I type with four.
I haven’t worked out all the use cases yet, though.
I use the tab key but I’m pretty sure vs code converts that to spaces
Depends on your settings, but yeah typically it does
It worries me that a programmer wouldn’t know for sure what’s happening when they hit tab, and that it’s a setting that can be changed.
I mean I was 99% sure it convert to spaces, I cannot say I was certain. The default settings are fine for what I do, I only ever had to change the spacing from 4 to 2 spaces once when dealing with someone else’s files
Linux kernel?
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#indentation
edit: oh python, nevermind
The kernel definitely mixes tabs and spaces:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/bfq-iosched.c#L390
Good. Spaces and tabs for indentation should never be mixed in any language other than Whitespace.
Some people use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. It kind of gets the pros of tabs (user configurable indent-width) and the pros of spaces (alignment). That doesn’t work in Python where you can’t align stuff and the interpreter doesn’t allow mixing tabs with spaces, but in other languages it is a possible style.
There are no pros to tabs. Configure tabs to a number of spaces.
Raw adjust with tabs, fine adjust with spaces.
Don’t laugh, people are actually doing that.
Mixing tabs and white spaces in 2024 is categorically a you problem lmao
Rust developer: I’d like to compile some code
Rust compiler: the fuck you are
The rust compiler holds your hand, wraps you in blankets, makes you hot chocolate, kisses you on the forehead before it gently and politely points out what you did wrong and how you can solve it step-by-step. It would never think of something as heinous as swearing at you, shame on you for insulting my wife’s honour like this.
Rust compiler is passive agressive, like:
“There’s an error at line 286 because you still don’t know how to use the borrow checker after all this time ♥️”
its a compiler. That is at best projection, especially considering how the compiler’s error feedback is designed to be firm yet gentle.
I need a rust compiler in my life 😍
Damn right. And once it compiles… it works.
Meet my friend: .unwrap()
Fair.
The rust compiler produces a flawless understanding of your code, and then quits out because understanding that code is a Nightly-only feature and you’re using the stable build.
except when it gives errors about lifetimes of some object.
boy, that makes my brain hurt
I don’t know from where this legend comes from but lifetimes/concurrency/macros errors are brain-hurting.
Most of the time I find myself dropping project because I wrote my program in a correct way but Rust just does not like how it is designed lol. I can’t get shit done with this language
gdb: Am I a joke to you?
Yes. It’s a surprisingly bad debugger the more you think about it. I use it largely in assembly and it loves to spit out random errors about memory it tried to access based on the current register state. The shortcuts are kind of dumb.
It certainly works but I wouldn’t call it a pleasure to use.
Ex: try
disp x/1i $eip
often just doesn’t work.I use gdb with great success for x64, rv64, and c:
info registers rip
or just setup tui:# ~/.config/gdb/gdbinit: tui new-layout default regs 1 {-horizontal src 1 asm 1} 2 status 0 cmd 1 tui layout default tui enable
I honestly vastly prefer using IDA and Windows specific tools (x64dbg) over gdb. IDA can interface with gdb so it can act as a frontend which can be handy for visualization.
https://www.youtube.com/@TsodingDaily
If you’re a programmer, or think you might want to be one, I highly recommend this channel. He’s a savant at all sorts of low level things, quite funny and entertaining, and does a fantastic job of explaining what’s going on.
tsoding’s channel is one I look forward to watching every single day, never a dull moment in his streams/videos.
If you’re someone who likes to watch things live, his Twitch channel is available here.
he’s russian tho
The guy is testing the result of malloc and you are complaining about how?
Embedded C entered the chat
Your loop had a race condition, so we let the smoke out for you.
Can’t believe that my code is racist smh
Ho hoo, that isn’t smoke, it’s steam, from the steamed rams we’re having! Mmm, steamed rams.
// I am responsible for every byte of this code and still don't know why this line breaks everything.
Imagine unironically praising Java.
The one thing I can say about java; the kinds of people who like Java tend to really like Java. Everyone else just leaves them to it.
And the people hating on it somehow never used any version above 8, which is 10 years old and EOL.
Oh I’m firmly in the second camp. They can use whatever version they like, as long as I don’t have to go near it.
I’ve used Java 21 pretty extensively, and it’s still comically bad compared to various alternatives, even apples-to-apples alternatives like C#. The only reason to use Java is that you’ve already been using Java.
it’s still comically bad compared to various alternatives, even apples-to-apples alternatives like C#.
I’d be interested to hear why. IMO Java has the superior ecosystem, runtime(s!), and community. The best part is that you don’t even HAVE to use java to access all this - you can just use kotlin, groovy, scala,… instead.
In terms of the language itself, while it (still) lacks some more modern language features, it has improved massively in that area as well, and they’re improving at a significant rate still. It also suffers from similar issues as PHP, where it has some old APIs that they don’t want to get rid of (yet?), but overall it’s a solid language.
Java is a traditional and conservative language, which has its strong upsides, like the syntax being familiar to many people who haven’t used the language before. It’s a language that brought us the JVM, gave a job to many people and established fundamentals for other languages to inspire and improve on. If you don’t like Java, you can just use another language for the JVM, like Scala, Kotlin or Clojure.
and inspired C#, which is pretty rad! (humble opinion… preparing for downvotes because I don’t get the feeling lemmy is where M$ devs hang out)
Only a fool could miss the value C# has when used to solve the proper problems :)
Totally! Thanks 😊
You only named one upside, I can’t think of any other, and C-like syntax is pretty common, so it’s not much of an upside. It’s at least debatable whether the JVM is a good thing at all - the majority of languages get along perfectly well without it, and there’s no reason to believe the ones that do target it wouldn’t be doing just fine if it didn’t exist. It’s weird to say Java gave a job to anybody - the demand to have software written resulted in programmers being hired; if Java hadn’t been pushed on the market by Sun, it would have just been another language. Java didn’t establish any fundamentals at all, it just borrowed from other places. While all three of the other languages you mention are interesting, for sure, I’m not sure why somebody who doesn’t like Java should limit themselves to JVM languages.
Java is good. Supporting Java legacy is bad
All the ideas are good.
Only the ideas are good.
Java: Not all poo poo.
Java is awesome. There ya go
This C++ message has an urgency vibes to it:
“Segmentation fault!! Drop the Nuclear Reactor quick!!”
Average C++ error
gdb ./fuck r where
you should get a complete stack trace (complete with values of some function arguments)
No bounds checking, only fast.
There is bounds checking, but it’s opt-in. I often enable it on debug builds.
This right here - C++ iirc is used mostly for microprocessor code in an industry setting, where EXTENSIVE testing is done so that bloated code doesn’t need to constantly check for programmer errors every single time, i.e. where execution speed is prioritized over programmer development time. And whenever that is not the case, well, as OP pointed out, other higher-level languages also exist (implication: to choose from).
C++ iirc is used mostly for microprocessor code
lol no, it’s used almost everywhere where performance is important and people want(ed) OOP, from tiny projects to web browsers (Chrome, Firefox) to game engines (Unreal, CryEngine). Many of these are hugely complex and do encounter segfaults on a somewhat frequent basis.
Saying C++ is mostly used for embedded applications is like saying C# is mostly used for scripting games, i.e. it doesn’t nearly cover all the use cases.
higher-level languages also exist
This depends on your definition of “higher-level”, but many people would argue that C++ is on a similar level to Java or C# in terms of abstraction. The latter two do, however, have a garbage collector, which vastly simplifies memory management for the programmer(generally anyway).
It’s also used for basically any AAA game
Lots of those in C# now, especially with Unity coming along like it did.
I also currently use it for a new project since all needed 3rd party libraries are from a very specific domain and the project has a deadline, so writing and testing wrappers for Rust that would provide me with any meaningful advantages down the road are too costly to budget for before the deadline.
That could become part of a future refactoring, though.
Nevermind that the C++ program is two orders of magnitude faster when completed.
I would love to learn and use Rust but I’m a embedded systems guy. Everything of consequence is C and C++.
If the embedded system is old or poorly-maintained enough, there might be more Rust than you’d think.
There’s embedded rust for a few platforms. Using it on ESPs is fun
Rust seems pretty performant
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/rust-gpp.html
I meant faster than Python, not faster than Rust. Rust is fast.
Ah. OK. Makes more sense.
The developer must either provide the logging and attach a debugger or go get fucked when a runtime error happens
That’s not true though. You can get the backtrace and other useful information from the coredump mentioned by the error message by loading it with gdb. Not as good as attaching it to a living process, since you can’t see step-by-step what happens leading up to the error, but still quite useful.
Well yes, that’s a pretty good way of debugging a third party app but if you are developing something you can have more ease with gdb attached
are you c++?
You can also debug post-mortem with the minidump or the core dump file with WDT on Windows. Great fun and a good way to brush up on your assembly skills
Great fun and a good way to brush up on your assembly skills
Just load it on the debugger and leave your asm skill gather patina.
I know this is supposed to be humorous, but there’s a reason why these languages can, and are doing what they’re doing.
Core dumps are also worth learning about, they’re really helpful if you understand them.
Joke on you until the python program segfaults
If it does it’s because of C/C++ code