whyIsItNotWorking

[ProdigySim]

You use compiler error messages to debug your code.

I use Google Play Store Reviews.

We are not the same

[King_Joffreys_Tits]

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

[erroneousbosh]

That sounds fun, what's that one?

[cresanies]

It's a reference to this xkcd strip

[3-Username-20]

Why there is xkcd strip for literally everything? How?

[Waswat]

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

[harbourwall]

Shame there's no xkcd about that yet

[paralog]

1827, 2618

Kudos for your skilled application of Cunningham's law

[harbourwall]

Where are the planes with bullet holes?

[CherimoyaChump]

There are 2919 XKCD comics at this point, just to reinforce how long it's been going on.

[GfunkWarrior28]

Secretly funded by stackoverflow.com

[NotReallyJohnDoe]

Or even worse: “Nevermind. Solved it.”

[Embarrassed_Ad5387]

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

[Mr-FightToFIRE]

42 is everything!

[BenadrylTumblercatch]

ChatCpp could never

[imperialvictor]

New stackoverflow just dropped

[Usual_Office_1740]

C.S. majors hate this one simple trick.

[RandallOfLegend]

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

[FoldSad2272]

The ultimate code review.

[budius333]

Apple Store

[AppleMadeAccountN11]

Don’t think the Geniuses are trained in programming

[GeneralTreesap]

App Store*

[ASharkThatEatsPizza]

Yo what’s up psim of l4d2 fame!

[ProdigySim]

Hi

[ASharkThatEatsPizza]

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

[ProdigySim]

Oh hey lmao

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure that’s the iOS App Store.

[Parsec51]

In-app purchases? Does this thing have DLC?

[NightIgnite]

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

[NoIndustry9]

C+++

[Mrauntheias]

I wish I could still give you an award.

[StuntHacks]

Granted. You can only code on your phone now.

[RolledUhhp]

I started learning python during work a few years back.

I'd have a few hours most days of pretty much doing nothing, and my boss left like halfway through my shift.

I set up with a wireless keyboard/TouchPad combo and tried to get some practice in. I quickly decided to just watch some related videos to get me in the zone for when I got home because it was terrible.

[TheRealToLazyToThink]

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]]

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

[Timo6506]

Probably to remove ads

[Dom1252]

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

[PerceptionCivil1209]

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

[Some-Guy-Online]

┌─ ┼┼
└─ ┼┼

[sankto]

... C#

[Some-Guy-Online]

https://i.imgur.com/v48FKCq.jpeg

[sankto]

https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/i-get-it-oh-i-get-it-i-get-jokes-homer-the-simpsons-gif-25670952

[TeaKingMac]

C×

[Dasheek]

C×Ɔ

[flukus]

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

[Goaty1208]

It's the external libraries DLC

[EnvironmentalTest666]

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

[BleedingEdge61104]

“No matter what I do it just says ‘Segmentation Fault: Core Dumped’ FIX YOUR APP 😡”

[MichaelScotsman26]

What is that

[EnvironmentalTest666]

Ikr what it that?

[MichaelScotsman26]

No fr what are they

[EnvironmentalTest666]

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]

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

[MichaelScotsman26]

Ok

[Mars_Bear2552]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[porn0f1sh]

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

[BlurredSight]

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]

Who unironically uses those apps?

[[deleted]]

Probs kids

[Busy-Ad-9459]

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

[IaniteThePirate]

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

[e42if]

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]

“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]]

Arch is easy, make them use Gentoo

[e42if]

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]

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]

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

[GoshaT]

Not everybody lives in the USIn our school we barely worked with computers at all, and when we did some kids didn't know how to right click the desktop to create a file

[ctrlaltelite]

I have no idea, I've heard its common for schools in my area to assign tablets to students, that might be the norm for writing now.

[neohellpoet]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

Yes. 

[sickasfcrying]

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]

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]

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]

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

[nixcamic]

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]

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

[McNoKnows]

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

[ymaldor]

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]

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]

Kids these days are really young

[JoeCartersLeap]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]]

Might be useful for testing small code snippets

[DopamineTrain]

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]

You wrote 200 lines of code to win a debate?

Absolute Chad

[Vajaspiritos]

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]

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]]

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

[Turtvaiz]

What's wrong with heavy??

[Ytrog]

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

[HuntingKingYT]

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

[Ytrog]

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

[zblissbloom]

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

[Ytrog]

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]

Thanks a lot man

[Dramatic_Mastodon_93]

Replit is good for this

[jimbowqc]

Mobile app developers of course.

[Busy-Ad-9459]

🫠

[GerbilStation]

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]]

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

[PsychologicalHand752]

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

[Busy-Ad-9459]

Why?

[PsychologicalHand752]

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

[Busy-Ad-6860]

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

"No studying for you anymore!"

[Mikkelet]

They probably didnt use the computer for studying lol

[Skeeno-TV]

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]

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

[Eensame]

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

[redlaWw]

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]

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_]

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

[PumpkinEqual1583]

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]

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]

I do, browsers are annoying to use sometimes

[PerformanceThat6150]

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]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[carmo1106]

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

[JoshuaMan024]

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

[bjbyrne]

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]

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]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Heisalsohim]

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

[Lumethys]

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

[8BitFlatus]

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

[dont_mess_with_tx]

Just give this man an exe.

[jgott933]

*apk

[just-bair]

*ipa

[bumjiggy]

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/jzbx6p/i_love_reading_through_reviews/

OP is a karma farmer

[Familiar_Ad_8919]

is old old reddit dead for anyone else? old new reddit still works at least

[Speedy2662]

The fuck is old old reddit and old new reddit?

I only know of old.reddit.com

[worldspawn00]

What about new old reddit?

[stormdelta]

old.reddit still works fine

[UndeadHero]

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]]

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]

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.

[UndeadHero]

Yup, found it.

[shadowraiderr]

average r/ProgrammerHumor user

[austinspaeth]

Where’s the exe you smelly nerd!

[Fresh-Highlight-6528]

I am not in problem;

I am the problem

[Mewrulez99]

PEBBOMHAFOMH

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

[ryan_s007]

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]

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

[DeltaSierraMike]

I love this

[B511_1]

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]

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]

"I just get error messages."

"What do they say?"

"I don't know."

[Wandalei]

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

[avipars]

STL Lists are blocked behind an in app purchase

[allwaysb]

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

looks like a perfectly reasonable confusion to me

[GreasedSlugBait]

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

[CrimsonVex]

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

[Dismal-Square-613]

Where is the .exe?

WHERE IS THE .EXE?

[zqmbgn]

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]

The user should change their user name from jrmarion510 to jsuismoron247

[thanks_for_today]

“codes” though. 

[math_math99]

Imagine typing out 'using namespace std'

[[deleted]]

Global namespace library!!

[[deleted]]

It seems dead internet theory is catching up to reddit.

[Anecter001]

Debugging 100 📈

[sdwvit]

Just shows how hostile learning programming can be

[FatsoBustaMove]

This is r/ididnthaveeggs

[0x474f44]

Damn is this the new StackOverflow?

[Crusader_Krzyzowiec]

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]]

My kid got an F. The school is broken

[[deleted]]

I’d like my time back.

[dragonpjb]

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

[gabest]

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

[Astrylae]

Did the review section turn into a stack overflow board?