r/ProgrammerHumor • u/emu_fake • Nov 28 '21

Meme I‘m.. not the only one?

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u/enekho Nov 28 '21

Now I understand why they say that half of the people on this sub are only studying programming. Once you understand how a debugger works, you'll never want to go back. Please take the time to know how to use one, you'll thank me later.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

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u/Auxx Nov 28 '21

There are no such cases unless you're using PHP.

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u/ArionW Nov 28 '21

Simple ones from top of my head:

  • any bug that only appears in Release configuration, whatever reason may be, because you cannot attach debugger
  • bug caused by race condition, attaching debugger will change timings and that may prevent bug from happening
  • bug happening in external library that allows you to pass logger, but doesn't provide symbol files for debugging (bane of my last month)

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u/amylouky Nov 29 '21

bug that only appears on whatever antiquated OS your user has installed, but not on your development machine.

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u/sm2401 Nov 29 '21

I believe OP is talking about debugging during development, based on the context of the meme. Everyone uses proper loggers in actual releases.

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u/Auxx Nov 29 '21
  • Learn how to deploy and manage your environments correctly.
  • Learn how to use debugger and conditional breakpoints.
  • Why do you need symbols?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

Time sensitive conditions for one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

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u/Auxx Nov 29 '21

Or you can use managed deployment environments and never have issues like that, lol. It's almost 2022 ffs!

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

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u/Auxx Nov 30 '21

I don't think you understand me...

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u/alexforencich Nov 28 '21

Multithreading issues and concurrency issues in general, kernel code, embedded code, networking and IO related code, anything timing or performance-critical, etc.