I was once using a pretty commonly used library (C# though). And I had an error which was mindboggling me. I was able to push it, but I was not able to identify it nor could I eliminate it.
I had only a few years (2 or 3) of experience and never did something like what I had to do before. So, of course, I assumed, that the error must be in my code. And I spent about one week looking for it until I had no doubt at all, that it must have been in the library.
Fortunately it was still maintained, so it took them another week to find it and deliver the fix.
Yes we used a very uncommon edge case. So that’s why, nobody encountered it before and most likely nobody ever will.
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I was once using a pretty commonly used library (C# though). And I had an error which was mindboggling me. I was able to push it, but I was not able to identify it nor could I eliminate it.
I had only a few years (2 or 3) of experience and never did something like what I had to do before. So, of course, I assumed, that the error must be in my code. And I spent about one week looking for it until I had no doubt at all, that it must have been in the library.
Fortunately it was still maintained, so it took them another week to find it and deliver the fix.
Yes we used a very uncommon edge case. So that’s why, nobody encountered it before and most likely nobody ever will.