Where does it write the file

I think it's pretty useful, be interested to hear your hangups with it though because it's definitely not perfect.

If something goes wrong and I have a stack trace, that plus the type of exception will almost always be enough for me to figure out what's wrong at least as a starting point. I've worked mostly with JVM languages in my career though so maybe I just don't know how bad it actually is.

I had a similar error, though not from the compiler
Error message just read this should never happen

Mixing spaces and tabs should be a warcrime.

Good. Spaces and tabs for indentation should never be mixed in any language other than Whitespace.

The rust compiler holds your hand, wraps you in blankets, makes you hot chocolate, kisses you on the forehead before it gently and politely points out what you did wrong and how you can solve it step-by-step. It would never think of something as heinous as swearing at you, shame on you for insulting my wife's honour like this.

Yes. It's a surprisingly bad debugger the more you think about it. I use it largely in assembly and it loves to spit out random errors about memory it tried to access based on the current register state. The shortcuts are kind of dumb.

It certainly works but I wouldn't call it a pleasure to use.

Ex: try disp x/1i $eip often just doesn't work.

Your loop had a race condition, so we let the smoke out for you.

// I am responsible for every byte of this code and still don't know why this line breaks everything.

https://www.youtube.com/@TsodingDaily

If you're a programmer, or think you might want to be one, I highly recommend this channel. He's a savant at all sorts of low level things, quite funny and entertaining, and does a fantastic job of explaining what's going on.

The one thing I can say about java; the kinds of people who like Java tend to really like Java. Everyone else just leaves them to it.

Java is a traditional and conservative language, which has its strong upsides, like the syntax being familiar to many people who haven't used the language before. It's a language that brought us the JVM, gave a job to many people and established fundamentals for other languages to inspire and improve on. If you don't like Java, you can just use another language for the JVM, like Scala, Kotlin or Clojure.

Java is good. Supporting Java legacy is bad

Average C++ error

There is bounds checking, but it's opt-in. I often enable it on debug builds.