What’s the most frustrating bug you've ever encountered, and how did you finally fix it (or did you just give up and rewrite everything)?

- Parameter sniffing on mssql
Fix: fuck around, add recompile hints, change a sql query by random to confuse the query store enough. (Using ORM)

- Nuget dependency conflicts
Fix: 10 hours of crying, trial and error and version bindings

Yeah I just rewrote the 100k loc project because I couldn’t fix the bug.

It a was condition race

It would have been something to do with Visual C++ and Windows 3.x in the late 90s, and probably either memory management or GDI related.

Nothing I've worked on in the last 20 years comes close in terms of making you want to gouge out your own eyeballs and pelt them at the screen.

@jestdotty I did, but not because I couldn’t fix a bug.

Recently messing with some html/js prototyping a project and spent a couple days trying to figure out why it wouldn't load a file.

Is the most frustrating debugging experience I've ever had in years. I've never been so mad, well, that is until I solved the issue and only got madder. It wasn't a bug, it was a security "feature" of the browser. Apparently at some point the browsers decided that a local file loading other local files is somehow a security risk and therefore I'm not allowed to do that.

I hate web development. I hate everything about it. Less frustrating, but still annoying, javascript projects that add a bunch of stuff to support Node, but don't bother including a simple "export default" support. I hate web dev so very very much.

What happened to @jestdotty's comments lol