My point is that one can have a lot of C++ working at scale. Reading code is very important part of large scale projects. Dropping debug builds is a reasonable tradeoff.
OK, got it... I suppose that's reasonable, but depending on what you're working on, I'm not sure seriously reducing the debuggability of your project is acceptable. For the kind of work I do, I need a debugger.
I would also argue that keeping it so that you can always easily run your project "REPL style" from a debugger exerts a very favorable downward force on all the complexities that make large projects hard to maintain.
I would also argue that keeping it so that you can always easily run your project "REPL style" from a debugger exerts a very favorable downward force on all the complexities that make large projects hard to maintain.