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Insanity on May 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I do not use a debugger (2016)

When something goes wrong after X iterations, print statements can show the evolution better. That is one thing that debuggers don't do I think (track variables over time). Or do they and am I not finding this feature in IntelliJ? :O

saagarjha on May 5, 2019 [–]

GDB and LLDB allow you to put a print statement anywhere; they’re a strict superset of what you can do in code.

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