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It's been years since I dealt with C/C++. But, from what I remember the debuggers and their integration with the IDEs wasn't great. In particular, it seemed l

It's been years since I dealt with C/C++. But, from what I remember the debuggers and their integration with the IDEs wasn't great. In particular, it seemed like embedded dev with debuggers was really painful. I've found that higher level languages (Java/javascript/python/etc) tend to have a much better integration and experience with debuggers than C/C++ did.

Linux-Fan 3y ago
Maybe I am biased because I work in embedded :) Before that I also encountered similar issues at the other end of the performance spectrum: When working with parallelized C++ code that required more than 64 GiB of RAM the overhead of a debugger can make the difference between being able to run the program or not. I still believe that in almost all cases it is possible to use a debugger even there, but it is always a significant setup required. And in the modern languages like Java and Python there are stack traces which already greatly help with the “debugging” such that even there I rarely missed the option to step through a program. I never worked with any really complicated Java or Python codebases, though.