People always say how they lost couple fucking hrs because of a bloody ';'.

You know what.. '!' are mush worse.

I just lost 2.5 hrs debugging because i had written if(x){} instead of if(!x)

semicolons you can find at compile time.
! are the true morons

If( x === false ){}

Live a happier life already.

Your editor usually screams at you when you have a missing semicolon. Unless you use notepad or something 🤷‍♂️

@M1sf3t Why?

No debugger, huh? Been there, done that.

@cprn Oh I was using debugger. Just wasn't setting the right break points.
That 'if' looked really innocent

This is not even a syntax error or a typo. If your logic is false, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the code.

I have been there and it was not nice at all.
Absolute hell.

@C0D4
Good luck doing that in C#

That's probably why Python suggests one uses "not". More clearly visible. ;P

I've once lost a hour, because of
for (var i=0; i++; i<x) {....

dont say bad words here, please

I once lost a day because of
if (x == y);
do_stuff();
And I'm still salty to this day 🙃🙃🙃
(Because of my vs code theme I can hardly see semicolons)

@Gregozor2121 And you need that in C# because...

@beggarboy
Konsole never said what launguage he is using and because === is a JS thing that code wouldnt work in C#

@Gregozor2121 but it's not just a JS thing 😏

But yes C# doesn't have a ===
But you could still do if(x == false){}

The only difference is Js and others use "==" as comparison, where "===" is type checked as well in order to prevent the following:

let x = 1;
If(x == true) // this is true
If(x === true) // this is false

@C0D4 @Gregozor2121 @beggarboy Well I was actually doing it in Java 😂

@Konsole fine.
Java is strict typed anyway so use "==" 😉

You cannot find semicolons like this...
if ( x ) ; {
Thing() ;
}

...In java and eclipse does not report it as an error.

Lots of time wasted on that one.

@c3ypt1c Intellij highlights that I think

@Konsole eclipse does not.