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Debuggers are very specific tools, and I've never really liked them. Basically, you get a tiny view of what your code is doing, and have to slowly build a ment
by Agingcoder 6y ago
Debuggers are very specific tools, and I've never really liked them.
Basically, you get a tiny view of what your code is doing, and have to slowly build a mental model of what's going on through time. I have found that prints and code reading (in a good IDE which is able to track variable references!) are often enough, and usually faster,for the kind of software I write.
Now, things are getting better: mozilla's RR is a game changer(reverse debugging on actual, large projects ), and more recently, pernosco (built on RR but very close to science-fiction) has at long last made me like debuggers again.
https://rr-project.org/ https://rr-project.org/
https://www.pernos.co/ https://www.pernos.co/