I think in this case, because everyone brings up multithreaded examples when saying a debugger isn’t useful, maybe print debugging can lead you towards the path

I think in this case, because everyone brings up multithreaded examples when saying a debugger isn’t useful, maybe print debugging can lead you towards the path of where to use a debugger efficiently. I personally think if you can’t use a debugger in a multithreaded codebase, the architecture is bad or one doesn’t understand the code. So yeah, full circle, if print debugging helps one learn the code better, that is only a positive. I’m so amused about how debuggers have become a debate around here. “Printf vs debugger” is like “emacs vs vi” right now, and it really shouldn’t be. Sometimes I put a breakpoint AT my printf statement.