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.
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
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.
As linus says, if you need to use a debugger your code is too complicated
The problem is that sometimes it’s not your code that you’re debugging
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.
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
Well then obviously if you use libraries, your code is too complicated
Yep that’s why I refuse to use standard libraries. It just makes my code too complicated…
Tell that to my employer
Dude can pry my debugger from my cold, dead hands.