I do a lot of print statements as well. I think the greatest value of debuggers comes when I’m working on a codebase where I don’t already have a strong mental

I do a lot of print statements as well. I think the greatest value of debuggers comes when I’m working on a codebase where I don’t already have a strong mental model, because it lets me read the code as a living artifact with states and stack traces. Like Rob Pike, I also find single-stepping tedious.