sellingspams@feddit.de to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago6 stages of debuggingi.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1445arrow-down14
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minus-squareDonjonMaister@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoStage 4.5: console.log() everything.
minus-squarezqwzzle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAnd then the logging fixes the subtle timing issue causing the problem.
minus-squaresickmatter@fedia.iolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoEspecially if logging ends up spreading a global mutex around the log file.
minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoWe have logging software built in, but I can never remember how to turn it on, so I just console.log
minus-square0x4E4F@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoStep 4.6: Get another drive for the logs.
minus-squareSpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago“Oh…that’s why it’s not working”
Stage 4.5: console.log() everything.
And then the logging fixes the subtle timing issue causing the problem.
Race conditions are the worst
Good ol’ Heisenbugs.
Especially if logging ends up spreading a global mutex around the log file.
We have logging software built in, but I can never remember how to turn it on, so I just console.log
Step 4.6: Get another drive for the logs.
“Oh…that’s why it’s not working”