[shortrounddev2]

I honestly believe it's a cultural thing. I don't think there's any rational reason to not want to use a debugger, but I've met many people who swear it's useless. I think people in web tend not to use debugger, and a lot of Linux people as well. Everybgame developer I've met and most windows programmers use them

[marssaxman]

I made heavy use of interactive debuggers earlier in my career. After several years working in environments where debuggers were broken, unhelpful, or not available, I completely lost the habit. It was not so much a cultural thing as simple practicality: logging always works. I'd rather maximize my limited brainpower by focusing on the software I'm building and thinking as little as possible about the tools I'm using.

It may be somewhat cultural in that influence from functional programming eventually changed the way I think about state and state transitions, leading me to design my code differently, reducing the amount of debugging I have to do and making it easier to do via logging.