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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by scotty79 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:37AM (#44307204)
What's insane is that debuggers could support at least 80-90% of print debugging workflow with a good UI.

The only thing that's really missing is history of the values of the watches you added, all in one log. With filters because why not.

For some reason I never seen this option in any debugger I tried.

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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by scotty79 on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @07:30AM (#44365005)
UPDATE:

Heh, who knew, debuggers already have this feature under the name tracepoints (VS) or logpoints (Viscose).

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/07/12/introducing-l...

It should be way more well known among print debug crowd.

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