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by makeitdouble 289 days ago
Depending on the language or setup debuggers can be really crappy. I think people here would just flee away and go find a better fitting stack, but for more pragmatic workers they'll just learn to debug with the other tools (REPL, structured logging, APMs etc.)
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if your repl is good enough and the bug isn't a crash, repl based debugging can be excellent (especially if the language has good introspection capabilities)