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Since adopting TDD, my debugger use has really dropped off. I think it's partially due to TDD encouraging me to develop more pure functions and push side effects to injectable (and thus mockable) objects.
But every so often I encounter a state that I can't understand how the code gets into, and in those cases being able to step through everything that's going on is incredibly helpful.
I may not use my debugger every day, but when I want it, I'm sure glad it's there.
When I have a real head scratcher like that I use log with a b c d. It's rare though and mostly due to me not paying attention or due to some convoluted calling graph.
Ya I've also switched to functional wherever possible. I still use objects for di.
Same here! Testing up front has made it extremely rare that I have to go back with a debugger later.