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Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by frollogaston on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:24PM (#44311713)
It's not a realtime system kind of thing where the debugger would change the behavior too much... It's possible with enough engineering work, but nobody has put that work in, in fact they had a debugger for some staging envs that they deleted. Lately they keep adding more red tape making it hard to even run something locally, let alone attach a debugger.

I guess you can attach a debugger for unit tests, but that's not very useful.

Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by Kwantuum on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @07:22PM (#44314103)
> I guess you can attach a debugger for unit tests, but that's not very useful.

That is in fact incredibly useful

Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by frollogaston on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:23PM (#44314389)
Eh, it's there for those who want it, but nobody uses it
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by monkeyelite on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:44PM (#44314732)
See this just sounds like you do not have an engineering culture or learning, enabling, and using debuggers.
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by frollogaston on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:12PM (#44315120)
Not sure what an engineering culture is, but I don't want it. I just want to attach a debugger to our stuff (not the unit tests).
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) by monkeyelite on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:30AM (#44319608)
*engineering culture of

It’s a similar muscle to exercise as using a profiler.