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App crashed to the point that even the error message has errors (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Mexigore@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Unlocalized strings are not errors.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

I guess it depends on the definition, but I'd say they absolutely are errors; if some function produces a result that is both unexpected for the user and outside the design criteria it should be considered an error.

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