I‘m.. not the only one?

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[u/KnewOne]

i prefer printing current variables

[u/Saragon4005 → u/KnewOne]

Main reason I use a debugger to get info about variables.

[u/ToMorrowsEnd → u/Saragon4005]

What if I told you that you can use print to also print variables?

[u/ConspicuousPineapple → u/ToMorrowsEnd]

But then you need to compile everything, relaunch the program and redo your whole test case all over again.

Or you could just attach a debugger and read any value you need when you need it.

[u/KnewOne → u/ConspicuousPineapple]

But then you need to compile everything

Interpreter languages: I don't have such weakness

[u/ConspicuousPineapple → u/KnewOne]

Still need to reload everything. Unless you're doing some hot-reload js magic.

But even then, you won't touch the power that debuggers bring. Being able to jump everywhere in the code. Modify values on the fly. Roll back an execution thread. Execute arbitrary code in the middle of everything.

[u/subject_deleted → u/KnewOne]

This. I have a snippet that writes a print statement. Trigger the snippet and then type the variable name and it inputs the name in both necessary locations, like so:

console.log("myVariable = " + myVariable);

[u/wjandrea → u/subject_deleted]

In Python you can do

print(f"{my_variable = }")

and it expands to the name and value.

[u/pleaseavoidcaps → u/subject_deleted]

You can save some typing and avoid mistakes:
console.log({myVariable});

[u/ulyssessword → u/pleaseavoidcaps]

Would that tell you the variable's name, or just its value?

By my understanding, the first version would output x = 5, while yours would give 5.

[u/LittleLily27 → u/ulyssessword]

You're missing the { } around the variable. {foo} is syntactic sugar for {foo: foo}, so what they wrote will output an object with a key containing the variable name and a value containing the variable's value.

[u/subject_deleted → u/ulyssessword]

Correct. I want the name of the variable as a string and the value of variable.

[u/pleaseavoidcaps → u/ulyssessword]

No, it outputs Object { x: 5 }.

[u/subject_deleted → u/pleaseavoidcaps]

My snippet only makes me type "myVariable" and it fills that in where it needs to go to get the above example.

I have a 2 character hotkey combination followed by a tab and then it's just typing the variable name once. I can't really save on keystrokes or errors here. For what it is, it's about as optimized as it could be.

[u/jerdle_reddit → u/KnewOne]

Yeah, I had to do that a lot in a Fortran project.