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How frequently do you use profilers/debuggers at work? (anarch.is)
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I know profilers and debuggers are a boon for productivity, but anecdotally I've found they're seldom used. How often do you use debuggers/profilers in your work? What's preventing you? conversely, what enables you to use them?

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[–] SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I've used a debuggers only a handful of times in the last decade or so. The projects I work on have complex stacks, are distributed, etc. The effort to get that to run in a debugger is simply not worth it, logging and testing will do 99.9% of the time. Profiling on the other hand, now that's useful, especially on prod or under prod load.