[jdreaver]

I used to always use the VS debugger when I used C# in school (my research lab used C#). Now, I use Python and C for work, and I never use a step debugger. For some reason I just don't miss it, and using print statements is just fine.

This is especially true in multithreaded code. I do a lot of Qt programming, and everything tends to be executed in an auxiliary thread.

I will say that I like step debuggers that come along with a REPL. This is probably the one and only thing I like about Matlab.

Lastly, I program in Haskell for fun (enough at least to write a small unit conversion library [1]). Because of laziness, I find the step debugger impossible to use. I definitely rely on print statements in Haskell.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/quantities

[varkson]

I know what you're getting at.

At home I develop with C# and use the debugger all the time. However, I'm a PHP dev at work and we can't connect to our dev server with debuggers. We have all sorts of various tools we built for getting around it, like dumping objects to email and so forth. Although I kinda miss a step debugger at work I've got enough tools to deal with it, even if it's a bit slower sometimes. In other cases it's kinda freeing in a strange way.