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debugging is useful when your codebase is bad: imperative style, mutable state, weak type system, spaghetti code, state and control variables intermixed. i'd r
by slt2021 1y ago
debugging is useful when your codebase is bad: imperative style, mutable state, weak type system, spaghetti code, state and control variables intermixed.
i'd rather never use debugger, so that my coding style is enforced to be clean code, strong type system, immutable variables, explicit error control, explicit control flow etc
- commandlinefan 1y agoYou've gotten downvoted but I think you're correct - if there were no debuggers, the developers would be forced to write (better) code that didn't need them.
- slt2021 1y agoThank you for defending the common sense opinion. Some people here are too reactionary