Debugging 101: Why Does it Always Have to be So Hard?

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Why Does it Always Have to Be So Hard?

Debugging is like trying to find a specific grain of sand in a billion grains of sand. Except instead of sand, we're dealing with binary code that's as slippery as a snake's hind legs.

But fear not, dear coder, for we shall persevere through the debugging process. After all, it's a rite of passage for any self-respecting programmer.

Let's take a look at some common binary dilemmas and see if we can't figure out why it always has to be so hard:

Stay tuned for more debugging dilemmas, and maybe, just maybe, we'll make it out of this coding jungle alive.

// This is some example code that's guaranteed to give you a headache
		int x = 10;
		int y = 5;
		if (x & y) {
			console.log('I'm stuck in an infinite loop!');
		} else {
			console.log('Why is this code so hard?!');
		}