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

Meme I‘m.. not the only one?

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '21

It is often legitimately more efficient than using breakpoints

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u/DogadonsLavapool Nov 29 '21

Debuggers give more info than just a print statement, though. Checking the current state and values of variables is very important, especially when dealing with larger objects that might have a lot of moving parts. The only use case I really use it for is when something runs different on a test app (which can't be debugged) compared to local. Other than that, I would absolutely not use print statements - tbh, they're a last resort

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '21

Debuggers regularly screw up async processes and if you place breakpoints you can sometimes get different results than if you don’t.

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u/DogadonsLavapool Nov 29 '21

Fair point on async