What does everyone use / do to help make the debugging process faster ?
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I suspect neither of these is the kind of answer you were looking for, but: Keep programs short. Write purely functional code whenever possible.
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In short, all tounges lead to lisp.
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+1. The biggest level-ups in my career have been: Leveraging good type systems Property checking Writing pure functions, then testing the hell out of 'em. Whenever possible, make algebra do the tricky bits for you.
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Hey Adam, can you expand a bit on what you mean by good type systems? And any material you advise (beyond practise) to get good at these? Self-teaching myself programming so this type of knowledge is golden. Thanks!
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Thanks!
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Debugging an existing system: do a mental diff between broken state & last known good state. Helps isolate the bug
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This!!! The clutter folks pack into code in a bid to have it look cool
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And use TDD
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every line of code is a potential bug
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"Write purely functional code whenever possible" is extremely difficult to do. Most developers don't understand how to achieve this.
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I thought this was true until I picked languages and approaches that helped/enforced this. Using LISP(ish) languages like Clojure(script) accelerated everything and defect rates dropped (after a short learning curve). We learn things like object orientation too (unlearn first).
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