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Print is a debug function in some languages, but it's usually just stdout. You can add all kinds of logging libraries that wrap around print() with prefixes and

Print is a debug function in some languages, but it's usually just stdout. You can add all kinds of logging libraries that wrap around print() with prefixes and control sequences to add colours, but I generally don't bother with those myself. In those circumstances, I would use something like logger.debug() instead of plain print(), though. I personally find myself using print debugging as a last resort when the debugger doesn't suffice.

DinaCoder99 3y ago
There seems to be a conflation in two subtly different types of debugging here—one is simply regurgitating state while tracking down a specific bug on a local machine and should not be committed and the other is intended to be checked into possibly production code with the assumption being sent to a log aggregator. I think both are valid techniques, but one clearly benefits from the use of the `log` crate more than the other.