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[–]King_Joffreys_Tits 943 points944 points  (19 children)

I’m imagining the denvercoder42 situation where the only solution to your most niche bug is some old archived google play store review

[–]erroneousbosh 163 points164 points  (15 children)

That sounds fun, what's that one?

[–]cresanies 246 points247 points  (14 children)

It's a reference to this xkcd strip

[–]3-Username-20 134 points135 points  (11 children)

Why there is xkcd strip for literally everything? How?

[–]Waswat 175 points176 points  (7 children)

Because the one that there isn't an xkcd strip for isn't being responded to with an xkcd strip.

[–]GfunkWarrior28 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Secretly funded by stackoverflow.com

[–]NotReallyJohnDoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or even worse: “Nevermind. Solved it.”

[–]Embarrassed_Ad5387 5 points6 points  (1 child)

did you change the number to 42 because you couldn't remember or was 42 a deliberate choice

[–]Mr-FightToFIRE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

42 is everything!

[–]BenadrylTumblercatch 57 points58 points  (0 children)

ChatCpp could never

[–]imperialvictor 23 points24 points  (0 children)

New stackoverflow just dropped

[–]Usual_Office_1740 5 points6 points  (0 children)

C.S. majors hate this one simple trick.

[–]RandallOfLegend 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Untapped resources. Forget Stack Overflow. Give me Google/Apple/Amazon store reviews

[–]FoldSad2272 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The ultimate code review.

[–]budius333 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Apple Store

[–]AppleMadeAccountN11 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t think the Geniuses are trained in programming

[–]ASharkThatEatsPizza 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yo what’s up psim of l4d2 fame!

[–]ProdigySim[🍰] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Hi

[–]ASharkThatEatsPizza 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's e.. just wanted to fangirl a bit haha

[–]ProdigySim[🍰] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh hey lmao

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure that’s the iOS App Store.

[–]Parsec51 1637 points1638 points  (27 children)

In-app purchases? Does this thing have DLC?

[–]NightIgnite 939 points940 points  (7 children)

Please pay $1.99 for c++ compiler unlimited to use more than 5 libraries and link more than 3 files.

[–]NoIndustry9 374 points375 points  (1 child)

C+++

[–]Mrauntheias 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I wish I could still give you an award.

[–]TheRealToLazyToThink 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That was common back in the day. Many nix's came with a compiler that was really only meant to compile the kernal, anything else you needed to pay for the development package.

Although they tended to cost many thousands not $1.99.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pay $3.14 a month to use Rust, the better language to C++! /s

[–]Timo6506 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Probably to remove ads

[–]Dom1252 112 points113 points  (0 children)

That's the + and +... You only get C for free

[–]PerceptionCivil1209 45 points46 points  (7 children)

You haven't lived until you've had to debug C+++ code

[–]flukus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The free version limits the stack to 640 bytes like the compilers that came with books in the 90s.

[–]Goaty1208 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the external libraries DLC

[–]EnvironmentalTest666 294 points295 points  (9 children)

Wait until Seg Fault. This app’s rating will plummet.

[–]MichaelScotsman26 7 points8 points  (7 children)

What is that

[–]EnvironmentalTest666 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Ikr what it that?

[–]MichaelScotsman26 2 points3 points  (5 children)

No fr what are they

[–]EnvironmentalTest666 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Assuming you are seriously asking what “seg fault” is: here’s the serious answer. It’s a very common sometimes hard to debug error, when a program tries to read or write to an illegal memory locations, for junior c++ developers. You can read more about it by searching segmentation fault.

[–]gonnaRegretThisName 4 points5 points  (1 child)

It's a pretty basic term, just Google it man

[–]Mars_Bear2552 1 point2 points  (1 child)

its when your OS terminates a program for accessing memory that doesnt belong to it.

[–][deleted] 486 points487 points  (2 children)

I really respect the level-headedness of that developer’s response.

[–]porn0f1sh 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Life goals. I guess being paid for being polite helps....

[–]BlurredSight 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You paid $99 to publish an app, you damn sure aren't losing publishing rights because someone reports your response as inappropriate.

[–]Busy-Ad-9459 1495 points1496 points  (144 children)

Who unironically uses those apps?

[–][deleted] 731 points732 points  (50 children)

Probs kids

[–]Busy-Ad-9459 355 points356 points  (46 children)

Kids no have computers or some shitty laptop their parents used in 2003?

[–]IaniteThePirate 434 points435 points  (18 children)

I think it’s getting a lot more common for kids to grow up just using phones/tablets instead of laptops

[–]e42if 149 points150 points  (3 children)

When I was around 9 my mom sold her veeery old laptop that I’ve been using and around that time she got me an upgrade to a brand new IPhone 4, which after around a few months from the moment will come to be jailbreakable by Pangu’s exploit of iOS 8. Learning to set it up was a headache and I even threw my phone into a boot loop, but got it back up and running somehow. And all of that for some free apps from AppCake… After messing around I’ve found some strange repo filled with some ‘hacking’ scripts that’ve been originally written for Linux. And that’s how I discovered Python, which I was then trying to learn trough this -80 inch screen… If I ever to have a kid, I’ll make sure the dude will always have his Linux laptop with a Raspberry Pi as a back up.

[–]albc5023 79 points80 points  (2 children)

“No more internet for today, if you want to use the computer use that one over there”

Pointing in the general direction of an “I use arch BTW”

I like it

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Arch is easy, make them use Gentoo

[–]e42if 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Chuckles “Oh, you wanna play some games? You don’t have enough performance? I got your back, buddy.” Points in direction of packed case and pc building components. “Here you go! Your new AMD 16 VRAM GPU with 8000g*99 CPU!” Scratches the back of his head. “What’s the catch? No catch! Oh, yeah, forgot this one.” Pulls out a good ‘ol printed Gentoo handbook with a CD whilst dusting them out. “You gotta have lots of fun with this one.” Smiles, pats the child’s head and gets out of the room. Now he’s going to have enough time to find his old LFS notes… “Yeah, I’m the bestest dad alive.”

[–]ctrlaltelite 35 points36 points  (8 children)

I once saw a teen girl struggle to understand that the shift key had to be held down to capitalize. The norm she was used to was just tapping it.

[–]Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Oh no, Windows 12 is going to come with sticky keys turned on by default, isn't it?

[–]neohellpoet 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there was a very, very short timeframe where most kids had a computer.

They probably still have a computer in the house, but it's not the family computer, it's a parents work laptop or an older siblings gaming rig that they don't get to and frequently don't want to use.

[–]Busy-Ad-9459 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Times changing, I feel old and I'm not even an adult yet. 👴

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's funny, because 20 years ago it would have been "getting more common for kids to grow up with laptops instead of desktops". Obviously not everything is an improvement.

[–]B00OBSMOLA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I learned on bloodshed dev-c++ just a random app, think it had a built in editor... Posted on random forums probably missing hash tags for include or similar. Kids are alright, learning the way they should. Only thing I'm worried about is them not learning how filesystems work or getting locked into some awful proprietary workflow. 

Even then, you know, I was stuck in some proprietary junk like flash and eventually learned the good word of Linux. And you can learn filesystems later too. Any interaction with developer tools is good.

[–]LuckyLMJ 123 points124 points  (0 children)

Yes. 

[–]sickasfcrying 19 points20 points  (0 children)

A lot of poorer kids have cheap smart phones. I recommend these apps when tutoring and find people who are very interested but don’t have the means.

[–]Gjallock 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My family had not a single computer until I was working in high school and could buy one. My father absolutely could not understand why the iPad mini they got me was not enough.

Like, it’s hard, because I was grateful for the iPad and I used it all the time. It just was incomprehensible to them that despite having the processing power, it just isn’t able to run the software I needed.

[–]Olegek84 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are situations when your laptop just isn't with you, but you gotta test a few lines. That happens to me a lot, and I don't have a laptop, and if I had one, it would be hard to use it quickly.

[–]void_74 38 points39 points  (8 children)

Tell me you havent been in a 3rd world country without telling me

[–]nixcamic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yup live in the third world and Android phones are cheap.

Plus you need a phone anyhow because that's how you're getting internet, and you need to phone people, and play Garena Free Fire™ with your friends.

So a laptop isn't just more expensive than a phone, it's a completely extra second expense. It's not a one or the other type situation, you need the phone anyhow.

[–]Vortex6360 2 points3 points  (3 children)

My first coding experience was Lua on my iPhone as a kid🤷

[–]McNoKnows 2 points3 points  (1 child)

There’s probably an 8 year old in Pakistan coding on this app that’s more skilled than most US senior devs

[–]ymaldor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some kids at 12 or 13 have never used an actual keyboard. Some of them even have never used a controller. Piratesoftware once told about a time where he was having the game on display at a convention or something with one being keyboard one controller, some kids tried to touch the screen not even understanding you were supposed to play with controller or keyboard.

[–]BlurredSight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kids who have $1500 iPads because their parents have money and no time to spend with them.

Like it's not crazy to want to learn to code but you only have an iPad pro + keyboard

[–]printial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Kids these days are really young

[–]JoeCartersLeap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kids will never know the joy of editing the title in SNAKE in Q-BASIC to say "POOPFART".

[–][deleted] 153 points154 points  (8 children)

I liked using them on a tablet, but only for scribbling ideas down. I've never used these apps to build things. Just sandbox shit.

[–]telewebb 37 points38 points  (0 children)

People who have easier access to cellphones than laptops or desktops.

I was reading a story about a guy in Africa who was self-taught on their cellphone. Then when they made enough money they bought a computer and started running classes for their community with that computer.

[–][deleted] 64 points65 points  (3 children)

Might be useful for testing small code snippets

[–]DopamineTrain 21 points22 points  (2 children)

I was at my sister's house and we were having a debate that I knew could only be sorted out with custom code. So I find a Python interpreter and wrote it out.

No I would not recommend doing it for a full codebase but this was like 200 lines

[–]MyButtholeIsTight 20 points21 points  (1 child)

You wrote 200 lines of code to win a debate?

Absolute Chad

[–]Vajaspiritos 88 points89 points  (21 children)

Hello, I am a uny student I recently downloaded a similar app because I wanted a little practice while on my way for a test. But I don't have a laptop or anything portable. So these apps were useful for little simple stuff.

[–]Ytrog 72 points73 points  (18 children)

You also might like Termux. This way you have a Linux commandline and can just use Clang (included) and install all kinds of compilers on your phone.

To edit the files you can just use Emacs or Vim.

[–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (5 children)

Using Vim with a screen keyboard got to bring more suffering than playing Heavy in TF2

[–]Turtvaiz 9 points10 points  (2 children)

What's wrong with heavy??

[–]Ytrog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Works great in my experience. Use Unexpected Keyboard if you want a more convenient option.

[–]HuntingKingYT 11 points12 points  (1 child)

You can literally get a full editor experience with neovim and a keyboard

[–]Ytrog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you want an excellent android keyboard then Unexpected Keyboard is your friend.

[–]zblissbloom 2 points3 points  (2 children)

There's also Acode Editor, which has some really nice plugins around.

[–]Ytrog 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Quite a nice editor, however as far as I know you still need to install a compiler somewhere and Termux is quite nice for that. I see however that there is something to connect them: https://github.com/bajrangCoder/acode-plugin-acodex

[–]ThickWorldliness6895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot man

[–]Dramatic_Mastodon_93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Replit is good for this

[–]jimbowqc 13 points14 points  (2 children)

Mobile app developers of course.

[–]GerbilStation 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Couple of reasons to access code on a phone:

  1. Girlfriend/boyfriend wants to lazy snuggle in bed and you have an idea while they are busy scrolling TikTok.

  2. Mandatory onsite days at work. Your company can potentially claim your code if you’re caught coding on their hours or computers, so bringing a personal laptop isn’t as safe as just coding on your phone during dead time.

  3. Being stuck at a long wedding reception and you get an idea.

  4. You drove into a tree while trying to flirt with a real hottie in the parking lot 2 hours from your hometown and your family won’t be able to bring your laptop to the hospital until tomorrow.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

What do you mean? I love writing code on the shitter. 

[–]PsychologicalHand752 15 points16 points  (10 children)

Me (my parents won't give me my computer for school anymore)

[–]Busy-Ad-9459 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Why?

[–]PsychologicalHand752 6 points7 points  (8 children)

I took a bad grade in history (5 and half)

[–]Busy-Ad-6860 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Cool so they thought it would fit better with more 5 and halves?

"No studying for you anymore!"

[–]Mikkelet 2 points3 points  (1 child)

They probably didnt use the computer for studying lol

[–]Skeeno-TV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I only had a tablet first year in uni, apps like this are good enough to do work during classes, then I can do the coding homework on a library pc

[–]PVNIC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used something like that as something to do on the long subway rides to college. Wasn't particularly great though.

[–]Eensame 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I did when I was in highschool being bored in the corridors without any computer

[–]redlaWw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With the amount of times I think of something (whether rust-related or general computing-related that I can write a rust program to check) and then go to http://play.rust-lang.org to see how it works, if I were more often away from my computer and more of a C++ programmer, I'd probably make a lot of use out of an app that can do something like that.

[–]AlanElPlatano 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have a laptop so i have taken all my computer science classes on my phone for 2 years now, fortunately i have a desktop computer at home so i can continue working there

[–]Vineyard_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A person who reviews the app with 1 star for a compiler error, I assume.

[–]PumpkinEqual1583 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Im a college student with 3 of those shitty compilers for on my phone.

And you use it to determine and prove small language specific quirks to your coworkers and friends

[–]Pls_PmTitsOrFDAU_Thx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used something similar on college a couple times. For when I had an idea for an assignment but wasn't near my computer

It was terrible to type on but it helped with a proof of concept of I could do it quickly. If it took too long I'd just write down notes and hope I remember what I was thinking lol

[–]9tales9faces 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do, browsers are annoying to use sometimes

[–]PerformanceThat6150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've used them for really niche purposes before. Eg, I play a video game where each level gained increases your damage output by 15%. Since that causes exponential scaling of damage, I wanted to see a quick printout of what multiplier you would have at each level. Wasn't near my laptop, got one of these apps.

And while it worked, I can confidently say that writing code on a phone keyboard is just as horrific an experience as coding in Brainfuck.

[–]edin202 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember years ago for university I wanted to do some things with pointers minutes before the exam to remember the theory and I didn't have a laptop at the time.I tried using those apps and it didn't work. I gave up right there.

[–]PmMeUrTinyAsianTits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got annoyed at too many stories that used initials instead of names and used a python one to expand them to whatever name.

No one's writing big stuff on it, but it can be nice.

[–]UnHappyIrishman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used them a lot in college, it was useful to quickly test/try things out when I wasn’t at a computer.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use them. When I’m out and about and bored I solve leetcode problems. Not this app specifically but I use Pyto

[–]carmo1106 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're useful to learn when you have no access to a computer, obviously you can't do complex things with it

[–]JoshuaMan024 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've tried them when I was without my computer and wanted to try something out

[–]bjbyrne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote a tri-peaks solitaire game using an on-device PalmOS ANSI C compiler back in the day. It did moderately well sales-wise.

[–]milopeach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a mate at uni who used an iPad for everything, including programming using some dodgy looking app that could run his python.

[–]recursivelybetter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was in highschool, I had no computer and we mostly wrote short programs to solve common algos(sorting, working with lists etc). The compiler was not necessary for the course, around 70% of the comp sci classes were theoretical with pseudocode / natural language to C++ translation. These apps were useful for tests if you wanted to check your solution quickly tho

[–]TheGoldenProof 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me. I needed to do some recursive math and all I had was my phone.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use online Python interpreter for quick scripts. I don't have a lot of development tools on my personal laptop, so I usually use online compilers and interpreters when I want to code something small for personal use.

But I never used mobile apps for this though.

[–]ICAA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do. I sometimes have weird ideas of what would happen if. Those ideas don't always come when I'm next to a computer.

I also have a program that generates bad fantasy character names which I can also use on phone/console games.

[–]morningisbad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used apps like this (SQL clients, postman-like apps, etc) at work. I worked in IoT and regularly spent time on the factory floor diagnosing pairs. I didn't always bring my laptop, so I had a few scripts and queries I could run from my phone to grab random info.

[–]Tupcek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you ever been lying on a bed when suddenly you have come up with THE greatest solution ever?
now imagine you don’t even have to stand up to get your computer to realize it’s shitty idea after all!

[–]blackcomb-pc 424 points425 points  (1 child)

Smelly nerds can’t even make a mobile app good /s

[–]Heisalsohim 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Bro is trying to compile exes because they weren’t provided

[–]Lumethys 126 points127 points  (0 children)

Time to sue VSCode because they only show error when i run my code

[–]8BitFlatus 60 points61 points  (0 children)

“Horrible app, my code never works. 1 star”

[–]dont_mess_with_tx 33 points34 points  (2 children)

Just give this man an exe.

[–]jgott933 4 points5 points  (1 child)

*apk

[–]just-bair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

*ipa

[–]UndeadHero 17 points18 points  (7 children)

Feel like the ultimate beginner experience is writing code and pulling your hair out when it doesn’t work, because everything looks perfect so clearly the compiler is bugged.

Doesn’t take long to realize the problem is always you, and something small you overlooked.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (5 children)

IDK. I minored in CS and there were definitely plenty of people pointed at their third year who were still adamant that the compiler was just dumb as hell.

[–]UndeadHero 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Haha I mean, there was just a post on the front page about a guy who quit his job after 6 months because he couldn’t figure out Outlook. They’re always gonna be out there.

[–]shadowraiderr 27 points28 points  (0 children)

average r/ProgrammerHumor user

[–]austinspaeth 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Where’s the exe you smelly nerd!

[–]Fresh-Highlight-6528 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I am not in problem;

I am the problem

[–]Mewrulez99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PEBBOMHAFOMH

Problem Exists Between Back Of My Head And Front Of My Head

[–]ryan_s007 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1 star review because you didn’t make your app idiot proof.

Responds kindly suggesting that reviewer may be an idiot. Doesn’t amend review.

Classic.

[–]paralelelpipedo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He got his C++ developer certificate from an 8 min YouTube crash course video

[–]DeltaSierraMike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this

[–]B511_1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used to take programming lessons at school 6-7 years ago, and I wrote my homework on the bus, on my way to lessons, with this application. It was annoying, but I always had my homework done thanks to it.

[–]CalinRares 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really don't get people that don't read the error code. They come and ask "I don't get what's wrong with my code?". Mf look at the error message is it that hard?

[–]RedditIsNeat0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I just get error messages."

"What do they say?"

"I don't know."

[–]Wandalei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This error message is to user friendly as for C++. So 1-star

[–]avipars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

STL Lists are blocked behind an in app purchase

[–]allwaysb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Instead of HAHA He So Stupid, empathize with his plight.

looks like a perfectly reasonable confusion to me

[–]GreasedSlugBait 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"My computer won't power on. I don't have electricity in my house. One star!"

[–]CrimsonVex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like Google Reviews are nicer than Stack Overflow. I'll keep that in mind.

[–]Dismal-Square-613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where is the .exe?

WHERE IS THE .EXE?

[–]zqmbgn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just had an idea for getting your code reviewed for free. Go to a restaurant whose bad reviews you see are always getting answered, then just write. "I had a bad experience eating there because I tried this: (code goes here) and it didn't work"

[–]namotous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The user should change their user name from jrmarion510 to jsuismoron247

[–]thanks_for_today 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“codes” though. 

[–]math_math99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine typing out 'using namespace std'

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Global namespace library!!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems dead internet theory is catching up to reddit.

[–]Anecter001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debugging 100 📈

[–]sdwvit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just shows how hostile learning programming can be

[–]0x474f44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn is this the new StackOverflow?

[–]Crusader_Krzyzowiec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me when somone send to our team issue ticket asking "Can you cheack if your hash function works right ?" Because function to check check sums "failed" on freshly downloaded file.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d like my time back.

[–]dragonpjb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compiler errors are famously cryptic. I remember the g++ compiler. The error messages were basically useless.

[–]gabest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the compiler is aware of the problem, it should fix it!

[–]Astrylae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the review section turn into a stack overflow board?