That's a very good point. I never used the debugger so much as writing C++ at google where much of the stack is proprietary and far too large to internalize. C

That's a very good point. I never used the debugger so much as writing C++ at google where much of the stack is proprietary and far too large to internalize. C++ is especially hard to reason about, though. The cognitive overhead of "running the compiler" in your brain is just staggering. Even scala doesn't feel that bad. Java code feels like building with LEGO in comparison—super, super easy to read and process.