Eli5 When applications crash, why do they provide an obscure error code instead of a small description of what the issue actually is?

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Eli5 When applications crash, why do they provide an obscure error code instead of a small description of what the issue actually is?

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If the application crashed, it means that something unpredictable by the developer happened. Therefore, the description of the error that occurred cannot be described briefly, since the developer needs a full description to fix the bug. For developers, this description is quite understandable.

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