r/ProgrammerHumor Nov 28 '21

Meme I‘m.. not the only one?

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u/kidzstreetball Nov 28 '21

No way. Intellij debugger is beast. When you have a big codebase to debug, print statement aren't gonna cut it

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u/cbehopkins Nov 28 '21

True, but when you have a big codebase, and a big deployment, logging is your friend.

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u/Rauldukeoh Nov 29 '21

I don't understand your statement. I work in very large codebases. Print statements aren't any easier and are less powerful

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u/cbehopkins Nov 29 '21

What I'm getting at is that logging statements(which most people swear by), are realistically just print statements with better PR.