• argh_another_username@lemmy.ca
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      Take someone’s source code, replace all semi colons with Greek question marks and see if they can compile. But as others said, any IDE will help.

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        Would probably be more effective to mess with Linux config files that use semicolons. Especially if it’s run as a daemon because Systemctl doesn’t always return helpful error messages for configuration errors.

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          would you say openRC or rc-service returns better or more helpful error messages with these kinds of things?

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          I think most daemons would log a helpful enough error message regarding incorrect syntax e.g. if it’s a config file of variable=value; format then it wouldn’t expect two equals signs on the same line.