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Re:Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology by jnericks on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:48AM (#22115208)
Agreed, debuggers can be nice to have but they are mostly a crutch.... Write modular code with unit tests and you find your need for debuggers is really a rarity
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Re:Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology by kgraves on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:48AM (#22115785)
Not every codebase you are working with (or would be working with) has unit tests.

Sometimes you’ll inherit such a project from a dev who left and you would be begging for a debugger.

Otherwise failing that, then the rewrite begins... Debuggers save us that effort in such a codebase.

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Re:Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology by m0xte on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:03AM (#22115573)
This. Only time I use debugger working on C# is on crash dumps.
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