What’s the most frustrating bug you've ever encountered, and how did you finally fix it (or did you just give up and rewrite everything)?

- Parameter sniffing on mssql
Fix: fuck around, add recompile hints, change a sql query by random to confuse the query store enough. (Using ORM)

- Nuget dependency conflicts
Fix: 10 hours of crying, trial and error and version bindings

Yeah I just rewrote the 100k loc project because I couldn’t fix the bug.

It a was condition race

@jestdotty I did, but not because I couldn’t fix a bug.

Recently messing with some html/js prototyping a project and spent a couple days trying to figure out why it wouldn't load a file.

Is the most frustrating debugging experience I've ever had in years. I've never been so mad, well, that is until I solved the issue and only got madder. It wasn't a bug, it was a security "feature" of the browser. Apparently at some point the browsers decided that a local file loading other local files is somehow a security risk and therefore I'm not allowed to do that.

I hate web development. I hate everything about it. Less frustrating, but still annoying, javascript projects that add a bunch of stuff to support Node, but don't bother including a simple "export default" support. I hate web dev so very very much.

What happened to @jestdotty's comments lol