I think that persistence of print debugging shows weaknesses of debuggers. Complicated setup, slow startup, separate custom UI for adding watches and breakpoin

I think that persistence of print debugging shows weaknesses of debuggers. Complicated setup, slow startup, separate custom UI for adding watches and breakpoints. Make a debugger integrated with the language and people will use it. You can then pile up on it subsequent useful features but you have to get basic UI right first. Because half of programmers now are willing to give up stepping, tree inspection even breakpoints just to avoid dealing with the crappy UI of debuggers.