The Ultimate Developer Fantasy

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Programming StackOverflow Debugging Testing

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The Ultimate Developer Fantasy

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Ah yes, the mythical "code that works on the first try" - a creature rarer than a unicorn riding a dragon. Most of us spend our days in an endless cycle of write-compile-error-debug-repeat until our coffee turns cold and our will to live evaporates. The second commenter's reaction is completely rational. Getting code to compile without errors on the first attempt is basically developer erotica at this point. Pure fantasy. I've been coding for 15 years and I'm still convinced that working first-try code is just an elaborate hoax perpetuated by Big Tech to keep us all motivated.

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