Things I learned the hard way

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On Wednesday, 19 June 2019 at 01:15:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/
>
> Debuggers are over-rated
> I heard a lot of people complaining that code editors that 
> don't come with debugging are terrible, exactly because they 
> don't come with debugging.
> 
> But when your code is in production, you can't run your 
> favorite debugger. Heck, you can't even run your favourite IDE. 
> But logging... Logging runs everywhere. You may not have the 
> information you want at the time of the crash (different 
> logging levels, for example) but you can enable logging to 
> figure out something later.
> 
> (Not saying debuggers are bad, they just not as helpful as most 
> people would think.)

This I don't agree with. Maybe specifically for his job it might 
not have been. If you are more of a tech support and you need to 
remote into a customer's computer and use whatever they have 
available on their computer, sure. But I doubt that's the case 
for a large majority of programmers. Also you can debug a crash 
that happened on a customer's computer for a native production 
application with a stack trace. You might be missing some 
variables because it is a production build that were optimized 
away but you still get a lot of relevant information.