Hacker News: heocoihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heocoiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 14 May 2026 15:12:17 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by heocoi in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"]]>Hit a fresh case of this last week porting an Astro layout. Wrote a literal `{` inside a `
` code block. Build crashed with "Expected `}` but found `:`" pointing to a line:col that didn't exist in the source file. Took 20 minutes to realize the position was from the compiled JS output, not my .astro file. Fix was escaping to {. The error wasn't wrong, just orphaned from the user's mental model of where the bug lives.

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