One time I struggled debugging a program on a clean Windows machine. For some reason it seemed like it couldn’t find a JSON file that’s obviously in the system. I could even open the file on my own and view its contents.
Turns out after much frustration that the file was actually a json.txt file. I didn’t notice because the extension was hidden, so I only saw .json and thought it was fine.
One time I struggled debugging a program on a clean Windows machine. For some reason it seemed like it couldn’t find a JSON file that’s obviously in the system. I could even open the file on my own and view its contents.
Turns out after much frustration that the file was actually a json.txt file. I didn’t notice because the extension was hidden, so I only saw .json and thought it was fine.
Step 5 in meme: add ‘.txt’ to seemingly text files.
sounds like vscode.
helix or micro on windows to get away from that garbage.
In this case I used notepad because it was a fresh Windows install on some VM.
Notepad is the one that does things like that, because they want you to only use it for
*.txtfiles. VSCode does not have issues like that.