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Discussion on: What has been your worst experience as a developer?

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Samuel Amagbakhen

I was just learning programming. I wrote a line of code(can't remember what) but I know I forgot to put the semi-colon. I spent 1 hour debugging the code. I hadn't learnt how to debug so I just kept scanning the code with me eyes. Really stressful.

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Shawn Humphreys

Yep! Definitely been there! As far as semi-colons go, I have been pretty spoiled with using Prettier extension. A little bit afraid of if an employer doesn't want me to use VS Code as text editor🤐

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Anthony Sutton

You can always install prettier locally in your package, and then write a script to format your code. prettier.io/

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Shawn Humphreys

My favorite tool other than kite!

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Ben

An employer should never limit the tools a dev wants to use.

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Shawn Humphreys

Very true!