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How frequently do you use profilers/debuggers at work? (anarch.is)
submitted 1 year ago by pinkpatrol@anarch.is to c/programming@beehaw.org
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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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[–] xian@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a C# programmer I use the debugger every single day, since it's so natural and easy to use as to just run the application. I've grow spoiled actually, when I program in Go or Rust I really miss the "it just works" debugger.

[–] frosty@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Same here. The Visual Studio debugger is excellent, and there's never a day that goes by without me using it.

[–] Jaloopa@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine programming without regularly pausing execution to inspect intermediate variables, run some quick checks in the immediate window or set conditional breakpoints. I'm always a bit surprised when I remember there are people who don't work like that