> I'm adverse to debuggers as i've more than once caught myself following a rabbit hole of steping through code instead of thinking. Yes. I was kind of forced

> I'm adverse to debuggers as i've more than once caught myself following a rabbit hole of steping through code instead of thinking. Yes. I was kind of forced to think and do printf debugging at the beginning of my career, after having used before that (as a hobbyist) quite good asm debuggers. Maybe that's just me, but I also was, I believe, a bit over-reliant on the debugger - I would just compile, run, see what happen, and launch the debugger if something didn't work. Nowadays I could use sometimes a debugger - but the system I work with is sort of soft real-time so stopping at a breakpoint of even slight changes in timings can change the context - in some cases even printf debugging could make a bug vanish. If nothing else, debugging without a debugger is a good exercise in logically thinking - and it can save time too.