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> If you have a fairly shallow bug ... But most of the bugs that I see aren't that shallow Oh come off it, debuggers shine the brightest when there are lots of
by schmidtleonard 2y ago
> If you have a fairly shallow bug ... But most of the bugs that I see aren't that shallow
Oh come off it, debuggers shine the brightest when there are lots of unknown unknowns. With printf debugging you can peel back exactly one layer at a time (oops, need to log one more thing) whereas with a debugger you can slice through the Gordian knot.
- dingnuts 2y agoTry using a debugger to debug a globally distributed system that humans aren't given access to for security reasons in a post mortem and then "come off it" yourself
- schmidtleonard 2y agoIs that the only kind of difficulty you can think of? Lol.
- nsteel 2y agoI agree with this comment but you really didn't need the first 4 words.