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1. epolan+Po8[view] [source] 2025-03-27 14:16:18
>>jakevo+(OP)
The worst bug I've ever encountered was a JS file that kept not running, with very cryptic and hard to understand trace that made no sense. TypeScript and others parsed it fine without any issues.

After 3 days of literally trying everything, I don't know why, I thought of rewriting the file character by character by hand and it worked. What was happening?

Eventually opened the two files side by side in a hex editor and here it is: several exotic unicode characters for "empty" space.

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2. wglb+v79[view] [source] 2025-03-27 18:41:01
>>epolan+Po8
So curious if this added a trick to your debugging toolbox?
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