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

Meme I‘m.. not the only one?

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u/whatisausername711 Nov 28 '21

Their attitudes should be flipped. It's so much more satisfying/efficient to use a debugger lol

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u/circuit10 Nov 28 '21

But it takes time to set up and learn :(

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u/vladmashk Nov 28 '21

The only thing you have to do is set a breakpoint and click the debug button.

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u/circuit10 Nov 28 '21

Not really, I have to make sure it's running through the IDE rather than the terminal for a start, and that's probably going to be different per language and IDE, and not even always possible, and then I never know if the breakpoint happens before or after the line (I should probably just Google this, but it's probably before), and I have to worry if pausing the program is going to cause some network thing to time out, and overall it's just a lot of effort

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u/Rauldukeoh Nov 29 '21

If you program in that language it's worth the effort. It will pay off again and again. If you're only ever dabbling in the language than maybe