Spent 40 minutes debugging a missing semicolon and now I triple check every line

I read on a dev blog yesterday that beginners waste an average of 30-60 minutes per session on tiny syntax errors like that, and it made me realize I need to slow down instead of rushing through code, anyone else still falling for these basic mistakes after months of practice?

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scott.olivia17d ago

Third coffee of the day made me miss a closing bracket last week. Still happens.

felixhenderson17d ago

lol I spent 45 minutes last week hunting a bug and it turned out I wrote "length" as "lenght" in my for loop condition. Felt like such a clown when I finally spotted it. It's wild how your brain just skips over your own typos sometimes, especially when you're like three errors deep into debugging mode. I started using a linter and it catches like half my dumb mistakes before I even hit run now, total lifesaver.

alice_allen517d ago

@beth_hernandez maybe not but a linter just hides bad habits instead of fixing them.

beth_hernandez17d ago

I mean, is it really that deep though?