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by theshrike79 1764 days ago
Dunno, 20 years in the business and I still debug with print statements.

It's enough in 95% of cases and it works every time in every environment. In the time it takes me to get a debugger running and attached to a process, I've print-debugged it and fixed it already =)
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maccard 1763 days ago
> In the time it takes me to get a debugger running and attached to a process,

In any modern editor or IDE, getting a debugger running and attached to a process usually amounts to opening a folder, adding a breakpoint and pressing F5

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ithkuil 1763 days ago
Same here. I very rarely reach for a debugger. Especially with Go where you can recompile the binary very quickly.

I tend to reach for a debugger when doing post mortem debugging or when I work with C where that's usually the easiest way to get a stack trace when a program crashes.

That said, time travel / reverse debuggers can be quite useful indeed: see http://choly.ca/post/debugging-go-with-rr/

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