My first attempt at a 'Hello World' program in Java failed for two hours because I had a semicolon in the wrong spot.

Two hours for one semicolon, really?

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Ugh, that reminds me of the time I spent a whole afternoon on a missing comma in a config file. My eyes just refused to see it. What's the longest you've been stuck on a tiny mistake?

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corah756mo ago

Yeah, those tiny syntax errors are brutal. I started using a linter in my editor that catches stray semicolons and missing brackets as I type. It saved me from so many of those hour long debug sessions over a single character.

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knight.uma6mo ago

Was it a classic case of a semicolon after the class declaration or something weirder, like inside the print statement? Those tiny syntax errors are the worst.

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