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Spent 4 hours debugging a missing semicolon last night
Was working on a simple JavaScript project. A to-do list app. Couldn't figure out why the add button did nothing. Checked my loops, my functions, everything. Finally saw it. Missed a semicolon right before the event listener. Four hours. Has anyone else spent an embarrassing amount of time on something that tiny?
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abby_singh2h ago
I mean, is it really that tiny though? Semicolons matter in JavaScript, they literally tell the parser where one statement ends and another begins.
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christopher90342m ago
Oh yeah, drove me crazy til I just started adding them everywhere out of habit.
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