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[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

I believe in a conspiracy theory that nobody uses debuggers.

[-] HairHeel@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago

console.log counts as “a debugger”, right?

[-] marlowe221@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

It does for me!

[-] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, but only because it gives you a link to where that was run. Click the link to the right with filename:lineNumber, and it will open the sources tab to that line. Set a breakpoint and rerun to pause there, then step through the code's execution.

Of course, if you're using minified or processed code, this will be more difficult, in that case figure out how to do it in VS Code.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

I use them daily. It makes it so much easier to work with an existing code base

[-] erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Yep. Once you get the hang of it, you will cringe to think of all the wasted effort that came before. But getting the hang of it takes dedication.

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Thankfully I use python mostly and pycharm makes it easy-ish to get the debugger hooked up to a project. But learning that process definitely took a few days

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Does this include C programmers? I've definitely found GDB to be indispensable in the past (or maybe that's what they would want you to think).

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

After decades of print debugging I finally got dap up and running in vim. It is very nice. Would recommend.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

I can record a video tomorrow if it helps?

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