This happend to me right noww as I tried to write a gui task manager for the GNU/Linux OS

  • Hupf@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    My first programming related memory is of the QBasic interpreter.

    I had written some code I was quite happy with, but not saved it yet. As part of a subroutine for sound output, I quickly wrote a loop from 20 to 20000 to output a test signal over 1 second each with that frequency via the PC speaker and hit execute.

    Realizing my mistake, It being MS-DOS and thus single-threaded, I couldn’t Ctrl+C out of it without killing QBasic altogether and losing my code. I couldn’t turn town the PC speaker.

    I ended up closing various doors between the PC and me and waiting it out.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    This is why VM snapshotting is so valuable.

    My IDE is my real workstation, and it hosts a VM in which I can plop some code, run it, crash, revert and try again.