I know profilers and debuggers are a boon for productivity, but anecdotally I’ve found they’re seldom used. How often do you use debuggers/profilers in your work? What’s preventing you? conversely, what enables you to use them?

  • Papamousse@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Really often, even since TurboDebuger in the 90s, no other way to trace your code, step over/into, watch variables, etc. For compiled program it’s necessary. For javascript I use print lol

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      1 year ago

      Don’t forget being able to watch the stack in realtime, and run your code backwards to roll back its state!