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The biggest mystery known to mankind (programming.dev)

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've literally experienced the "I changed/edited/deleted this comment and now my code works" before and it floored me. I can't for the life of me remember what happened specifically I just remember being scared. It shouldn't do that, and since it did something I deeply don't understand happened behind the scenes.

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

That's usually (in toolchians that aren't broken) a caching issue. IE what you see in your editor isn't what actually got ran, even if you told it to recompile.