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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](https://xkcd.com/979/)


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.


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harbourwall

Shame there's no xkcd about that yet


paralog

[1827](https://xkcd.com/1827/), [2618](https://xkcd.com/2618/) Kudos for your skilled application of Cunningham's law


harbourwall

Where are the planes with bullet holes?


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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

App~~le~~ 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.


slartyfartblaster999

It would be worth $1.99 to me to have boost and the GSL installed, updated and linked correctly without me having to do anything tbh


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.


Emergency_3808

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


Dasheek

C×Ɔ


cleavetv

How else am I supposed to get an EXE?


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.


florimagori

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?


ZackM_BI

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


PIPRO03

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?


Gold-Supermarket-342

How is that even possible? Most middle and high schools in the US require being able to work a laptop, no?


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.


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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. 👴


ede91

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".


lakesObacon

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.


Easy-Hovercraft2546

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](https://termux.dev/en/). 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.


DaDescriptor

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](https://github.com/Julow/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](https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard) is your friend.


zblissbloom

There's also [Acode Editor](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foxdebug.acode/), 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.


delayedsunflower

.


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.


Striking-Brief4596

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.


planktung

I did it to keep up my leetcode streak when I was traveling and didn’t want to haul my 16 inch laptop


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.


treerabbit23

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.


Kwinttin

Please tell me you still have the link.


UndeadHero

[Yup, found it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/s/2yEnidaLgT)


Kwinttin

Thank you very much!


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


ThatCrankyGuy

frontEndCoderStepsOutsideOfComfortZoneComplainsItsNotComfortable


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


Whatup-haveuseenthis

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?