[JoeOfTexas]

That just sounds painful if you work on large projects.

[jamesfinlayson]

Yeah, early in my career I got by with gedit on Ubuntu but before too long a 700,000+ line PHP project with deep, deep inheritance trees showed up and I very much embraced an IDE.

[TZubiri]

Would running a command line debugger be too different from your approach.

I would consider bothering with some static analysis tool, but definitely not with php or other runtime heavy languages.

[__MatrixMan__]

Then again, maybe large projects are a bad idea.

[broodbucket]

They tend to have this nasty habit of running the entire world, though.

[TZubiri]

Rarely, it's mostly small projects, but many many many of them.

[tobyhinloopen]

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