Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoLet the debugger do its job.suppo.fiimagemessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down148
arrow-up1379arrow-down1imageLet the debugger do its job.suppo.fiAlbin Jose@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squareqprimed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68arrow-down2·2 years agobecause, sometimes, having your program vomit all over your console is the best way to remain focused on the problem.
minus-squarecharliespider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 years agoThis is the reason for me. Sometimes I don’t want to step through the code and just want to scan through a giant list of output.
minus-squareripcord@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoSimilarly, every once in a while I’ll throw warning messages (which I can’t ship) to encourage me to go back and finish that TODO instead of letting it linger.
minus-squareMajorHavoc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoExactly. And there’s plenty of places where setting up a live debug stream is a massive PITA, and finding the log files is only a huge PITA. Edit: But I’ve been promised AI will do both soon, so I’ll stop stressing over it. /s
because, sometimes, having your program vomit all over your console is the best way to remain focused on the problem.
This is the reason for me. Sometimes I don’t want to step through the code and just want to scan through a giant list of output.
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Similarly, every once in a while I’ll throw warning messages (which I can’t ship) to encourage me to go back and finish that TODO instead of letting it linger.
Exactly. And there’s plenty of places where setting up a live debug stream is a massive PITA, and finding the log files is only a huge PITA.
Edit: But I’ve been promised AI will do both soon, so I’ll stop stressing over it. /s