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I hardly ever use them. I think it's mainly that I don't know how. I also generally dislike having to learn "context specific" tools, since you generally need different debuggers for different languages/environments/runtimes.

I also do a lot of low level code (kernel/bootloader) where debuggers can be available but are often a lot harder to setup. Keep in mind that I also don't like IDEs and my coding setup is mostly vim + ctags + terminal.

I really agree with the quote in TFA, when I write rust code a few judiciously placed dbg!() calls are generally all I need to identify the issue.