When I first learned to code in TurboC some 30 years ago I used the IDE's step debugger for a while. Although a great tool for learning how your code executes line after line, I stopped using it after a short while because I found it to tedious and distracting to go through the code this way. Being able to set a breakpoint and see the actual value of something I can do in an instant with logging. I never use the browsers 'debug' tool, tried it once and got bored already..

IMAO the code I'm working on should live inside my head, that's the place where I construct and debug. Even when I'm new on a +100Kloc project, I'd still prefer to read through the code and figure out what's actually going on.

I see so many developers in the JS world spending soo much time and focus on all those tools; types, eslint, debuggers, testing, etc.. it makes me really suspicious about whether they have the actual skill to write a good codebase. I can only be convinced when my code would be buggy and theirs flawless, but I never see that, it's for some reason always the other way around! Just take a look at this project (a random pick) with all those (virtual) safeguards, result: over 3600 issues!!! https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript

I mean 3600+ issues, WTF!! And I should be using this tool to prevent issues in my software? Sometimes it feels like this entire industry is broken.