Totally agreed: proper thinking (not hard thinking but proper) on how to design programs makes most debuggers tools useless. Kernighan and Pike, but also Thomps

Totally agreed: proper thinking (not hard thinking but proper) on how to design programs makes most debuggers tools useless. Kernighan and Pike, but also Thompson, Ritchie, etc. perfectly understood this 20 years ago. I would not be surprised to learn that they never had the needs to use something like gdb in their nontrivial C programs. I think JavaScript is a special case because it's too much complex by design.