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> However, in development environments you would be foolish not to use the (vastly superior) tooling available. The debugger being vastly superior is highly de
by nicoburns 5y ago
> However, in development environments you would be foolish not to use the (vastly superior) tooling available.
The debugger being vastly superior is highly dependant on what environment you are running in.
- halostatue 5y agoI have had cases where it takes ~2 hours to hit a bug case. You cannot afford that time waiting for the debugger. You must achieve that with logging. You might be able to figure out, with that logging, how to hit the bug faster and then you can use the debugger to step through, but I have found the use of a debugger to be beneficial in fewer than 20% of bugs I am trying to solve.
- IshKebab 5y agoThat sounds like exactly the sort of situation where you really want to use a debugger! I'd rather wait 3 hours to hit the bug and have full access to everything than wait 2 hours and realise that I didn't log an important variable and have to start again.