[kubb]

I use the debugger occasionally, when the human factor creeps in and I inadvertently make a programming error.

The downside of debugging is obvious: it's not enabled in your production programs (although it could be).

Logging OTOH is always on, and it has to be good enough to let you figure out what happened on a remote machine, in a program whose state you can't recreate anymore.

This obviously makes it good enough for debugging programs running locally, and makes reaching for a debugger a rare occurrence. GUIs for debuggers of course lag behind, so you need to refresh your memory of the step, step over and breakpoint instructions, etc. on every one of these rare occasions.

And then they don't always work. Printing more complex data structures is often an unholy mess of pointers to strings and private class fields. Evaluating expressions will end up failing or crashing your program. The symbol you're trying to break on doesn't exist? But why? This makes debuggers unusable for a mediocre developer.