people who tell you to using code debuggers are just gaslighting

just console.log all the way, everyone does it and it's fine

my unifying theory is that

1. debuggers are overkill for most web services, where the logic layer is simple and the data / infra layer holds the complexity 

2. debuggers are very effective for software where the logic layer is real-time and complex (operating systems, games, basically anything with a runloop)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

I always use logging, not console.log per se but just add logging with levels (traces, debug, info, warn, error; use them all) as much as I can and then control that with flags.

Not sure if debuggers have improved to work well with parallelism but I tend to avoid them since they mess with the loops and make it harder to find race conditions, etc.

Another reason why I stopped using debuggers is because many aren't easy to use and I've switched tech stacks so many times I don't have time to learn them.