[brailsafe]

The people I've met who don't use debuggers either write very uninteresting code day to day or just get by enough with their old ways of print statements, enough to not feel compelled to learn to set a debugger up. But I think that's dumb, and it's almost always worth understanding how to set up, especially in a large codebase.

[eurasiantiger]

And now you have to set up debugging for a Scala backend, a Node application running a GraphQL server, and a React Native frontend running in an iOS simulator.

[brailsafe]

Anytime something new comes along there'll be a period of time where debugging tools aren't adequate or substantially more difficult to set up. But for a piece of tech to be a competitive choice, it's just just such a productivity waste to not make that a pretty high priority. JS frameworks themselves are classically terrible at this, even React itself is pretty meh, but usually you can fall back to just standard devtool breakpoints.

I'd have a really hard time respecting someone's choice to bet on a tool that is very difficult to troubleshoot, if there's an alternative that isn't, unless that tool is extremely better at something else.