I am comfortable using a debugger, but println debugging is easy, fast, and disproportionately effective for most of my debugging in practice.
I reach for a “real” debugger when necessary, but that’s less than 5% of the time.
I reach for a “real” debugger when necessary, but that’s less than 5% of the time.
E.g. I keep wondering whether the split between people who can't live without debuggers vs people who rarely use debuggers is actually people who use IDEs versus people who don't.
But I find that if I have to step around more than a handful of times to find the issue then I forget what happened five steps ago. So I teach for print debugging quite often.