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I stopped doing step debugging at all many years ago. For me it looks the same as visual vs. text programming. Text and text search tools are just miles ahead of clicking buttons.

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There's always gdb/lldb from the command line.

So (for instance) in PowerShell my code breaks right as it is about to fail, with the state intact (ErrorActionPreference Break) which allows me to effectively fix whatever problem is about to occur and immediately have the state at the time of failure.

I dont understand how printing text could EVER approach this given I can test my assumptions right away and generally only need 1 error to happen to understand the totality of the circumstances.

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