The dirty secret of software development is that print debugging still beats a fancy debugger most of the time. What would a language or IDE designed for truly first-class print debugging look like?
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@akkartik, whose Mu language lets you write tests in terms of an application log.1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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Yeah, I've ranted before about how easy it is to build tooling to support debug by print. The power/LoC ratio is off the hook. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048633#11052363 … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11854319#11855294 … Time travel in 500 LoC: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/master/browse_trace …
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Fair warning, this is where it gets you:https://twitter.com/sedatesnail/status/1105293300163072000 …
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