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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?

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[–] cnk@kbin.dk 1 points 1 year ago

I have a tendency to just use console logging, and only use debuggers when things are starting to get hairy.

[–] JesterXIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I used to just use print statements and avoided debuggers because I didn't understand it. But as I've gotten more experienced, it's become my first choice in debugging now (go figure haha).

[–] camelcdr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently started doing xeyes debugging.

We have so many debug logs that trying to find your log of a background takes a non zero amount of time.

So just inserting system("xeyes"); is actually way easier, to get instant feedback, and you can just use system("xmessage msg"), if you need a message.

[–] Zapp@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That makes me so happy.

[–] xian@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

As a C# programmer I use the debugger every single day, since it's so natural and easy to use as to just run the application. I've grow spoiled actually, when I program in Go or Rust I really miss the "it just works" debugger.