> The article fundamentally says, "Print debugging is not as good as magical tools will be if anyone ever makes them." ...except he did make some of those magi

> The article fundamentally says, "Print debugging is not as good as magical tools will be if anyone ever makes them." ...except he did make some of those magical tools. This blog post is an advertisement for them. > Print debugging is awesome and good. It allows one to explore flow and data. It's the most primitive way to do that, which just happens to be "good enough" in many cases. This hinders the improvement of existing tools. This is also true for debuggers, they have been stagnant for decades. It's probably part of the same trend that pushed UNIX to domination despite being so primitive: It is cheap, portable and already ubiquitous.