Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by plugin-baby 1297 days ago
> Lately I've noticed that younger generation doesn't really understand error messages even in the simplest cases

It was ever thus. I suspect what’s happened is that lately you’ve become the older generation.

1 comments

I doubt that. I grew up learning to use a C debugger and interpret core dumps right from my undergraduate school. Knowing the error and inspecting the stack were something I just had to do. In the absence of google and stackoverflow the ability to inspect your core dumps and debug the stack were essential.
Bro I used to provide FreeBSD support on IRC over 20 years ago. People don’t read error messages.