programming

what’s the most annoying bug that ended up having a simple fix that you’ve encountered?

you know the bug is rough when you remember it 20 years later...

School project maybe 20 years ago. I got hit by an == vs .equals() string compare bug. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, the bug was nowhere near where the code was blowing up, and due to some magical downcasting, the code worked perfectly in a debugger.

I've hit lots of weird bugs since then, but that one still haunts me.

omg, i once spent hours debugging only to find out it was just a missing semicolon 🤦‍♂️ rookie mistake!

I spent two days figuring out why two services weren't connecting and it was because the path was "/v1/config.json" instead of "/config.json".