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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste.

Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue?

SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD 'date' TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, "Ain't no way." as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix?

SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

Moral of the story, don't become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Real moral of the story: STATIC TYPING!

Seriously so many people think it's a waste of time, and then stuff like this happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If only there were a good statically typed database, as opposed to thin wrappers over SQL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

And better error messages than "bro, you got a syntax error on this line"

[–] DinosaurSr 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How would static typing help here?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thinking about C# and Dapper here 'cause they're what I'm used to, but, for example...

result = await connection.QueryAsync<ResultType>(QUERY); (where ResultType is a statically typed record, class, or struct shaped like the data you want returned.)

Given a query that doesn't return something that matches any of ResultType's constructors, the code'll throw an exception at runtime complaining it needs a constructor that matches whatever it's returning, whereupon you'll notice it isn't asking for it to have a date parameter, so the query must not be returning it.