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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 137 points 1 month ago

All the debugging tools in the world doesn’t beat an excellent sense of intuition and putting that print statement exactly where it needs to be.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 66 points 1 month ago

As linus says, if you need to use a debugger your code is too complicated

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago

He works on Linux where he controls the whole stack down to the metal and I love that for him, but other people have to call library code, and them debug that if it doesn't work as they thought it would.

[-] rbits@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Well then obviously if you use libraries, your code is too complicated

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

Yep that's why I refuse to use standard libraries. It just makes my code too complicated...

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Tell that to my employer

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Right, the amount of times I've had to put breakpoints in Django/DRF code to figure out what's causing that weird undocumented behavior is concerningly large