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by threeseed 1596 days ago
As a developer I don't want my compiler to be funny.

I want it to give helpful, accurate advice as succinctly as possible.
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glhaynes 1596 days ago
It blows my mind how common taking a silly tone in error messages has become. It's _exactly_ the time the user shouldn't get the impression that you're taking a haha oh well attitude.
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