[roca]

This reminds me of Linus Torvalds' distaste for debuggers.

I think eschewing debugging is fine for code you understand pretty well and when you already have significant information about the failure. But when those conditions aren't met, debuggers are very useful. (NB, if you use logging code and think "I'm not using a debugger!", you're just using a bad one.)

It's true that a good debugger tempts one to think less deeply about the code than one should, but that temptation can be overcome.