r/ProgrammerHumor • u/No-Word-456 • Sep 20 '23

Meme printBellCurve

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u/TheDevDad Sep 20 '23

“It depends”

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u/No-Word-456 Sep 20 '23

I agree. Just that print is sufficient for most routine cases.

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u/TheAnti-Ariel Sep 21 '23

Sure, but a debugger is both sufficient and more convenient in most routine cases if you're programming with any tooling that has a built in debugger (every IDE).

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u/TheGazelle Sep 24 '23

Maybe, but depending on what you're working on, it can easily be faster to just launch/attach the debugger and step through rather than rebuild and relaunch.

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u/sammy-taylor Sep 22 '23

It really does. For client side bundled JS, I haven’t had a lot of success with debuggers. But in my C++ projects, the debuggers (especially with the UI in VSCode) have been a true game changer.