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Seeing this type of posts in 2018 is staggering, but hey, if it works for you...
I'm just spoiled because debugging was a much better experience 20 years ago with Visual Basic 6. Everything was super integrated.
Nowadays you have web servers, templating languages, databases, backends, frontends, etc.. It's not easy to find a debugging solution that doesn't completely suck, especially if you consider you're running your apps in Docker (and most editors have no idea how to debug code running inside of a container).
Over the years I found it faster (and easier) to just litter in print statements on demand where necessary. That's after building about 100 apps in a bunch of assorted frameworks and languages.
I got php remote debugging working with both phpstorm and with vscode if anyone needs help on it. It was an absolute pain in the ass. I'm here for you fam.
I'm just spoiled because debugging was a much better experience 20 years ago with Visual Basic 6. Everything was super integrated.
Nowadays you have web servers, templating languages, databases, backends, frontends, etc.. It's not easy to find a debugging solution that doesn't completely suck, especially if you consider you're running your apps in Docker (and most editors have no idea how to debug code running inside of a container).
Over the years I found it faster (and easier) to just litter in print statements on demand where necessary. That's after building about 100 apps in a bunch of assorted frameworks and languages.
I got php remote debugging working with both phpstorm and with vscode if anyone needs help on it. It was an absolute pain in the ass. I'm here for you fam.
Yes that is true, that is an universal method, cross langauges, envs and editors. But we should make and use better tools. let's improve.