Re:Debuggers Make You a Bad Detective
by Nicholas_Kross on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:13PM
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This is a good point, thank you! I am adding a quick note in the article to clarify that it's more about the code-stepping technique itself.
EDIT: one of the comments by the author makes it very clear: they don't consider lots of things you can do with e.g. gdb as "using a debugger": https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/21/i-do-not-use-a-debugger/#c... </EDIT>
The submitted article here is similar, by opening with that ridiculous example and pretending that's what using a debugger means. Debuggers don't make you bad at finding problems. Not knowing when to use which tool makes you bad at it. (And knowing how to make new tools out of your existing ones is also quite helpful)