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Re:Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 by rantwasp on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:42AM (#25225808)
that's a feature not a bug. you see... in today's world if you need to attach the debugger to understand something you have already lost. why? because you should not be able to attach a debugger to a production system (if you can that is another can of worm). ideally the logging + metrics of what you are building is enough for you to understand what is going on.

there is one notable exception to the no debugger rule: if you are learning/exploring a new code base on your dev machine and/or when writing tests [to cover legacy code]. but apart from that, unless your work is really special, you should not need a debugger.

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