Now imagine if it was an error on like 67, but on a different file anyway. The error message should tell you the call chain, and if it doesn’t (segfault aka fuck you) you need to debug and the debugger should tell you the call stack.
Yeah, but that’s some bullshit. I want to know what line in my file is causing the error.
And they know! They know what line in your file caused the error! They know the value of all the variables when the error hit. But do they show that? Fuck no.
No offense, but I know how to read a stack trace, and yes locate a familiar file - if you’re lucky enough to have one listed therein.
My point is, there is no excuse for them being so terrible except that they’ve always been that way.
The important information should be brief and at the top. This is design 101. The same ideas that have driven newspaper articles and websites for as long as the two have been a thing.
You put the important stuff in big letters at the top, and the rest, if you need it, is beneath the fold.
Edit: just to drive the point home: I’m sure it’s not the packages I’ve downloaded that are causing the error, I am positive it is my code, so show me where my code had a mistake first. Then you can show me the horrible “wall of text” that is the stack trace so I can understand it better later, but 99% of the time, just seeing the line that caused the error is enough to know what the problem is.
It’s a fair point, it would help a lot, I can see a drawback when the problem is incompatibility between libs or errors inside the lib but it could be solved with a show more option.
I like your ideia, would love to see how it would work
Also when code has been compiled, or transpiled. The reason the line numbers don’t match is because all of the code is being assembled into one large package and served to whatever client uses it. So even if you don’t minify, but you’re compiling, sourcemaps will show you where the error actually occurs, instead of where it occurs in the finished product.
I can’t tell if that was sarcasm or not. If it was, you got me. If it wasn’t, then that’s quite a big lack of understanding of what’s actually happening.
I had this happen to someone I mentor and pointed out that they had two versions of the same file in two different paths named the same. They were running the version in the other path than they were editing lol.
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