I have never used a debugger. As for me, I have learnt the most by manually tracing and grinding at the code. Yes it may be inefficient but a lot of the times you don't get an expected output due to some wrong logic. I guess manually analyzing code helps catch those.
I set up a debugger to step through some open source code that I had volunteered to help out with. I was wanting to add a small feature so wanted to step through to get familiar. On the first step through the code I saw a bug that had been around a while and saw some dead code. I wasn’t looking for bugs but I was reading ahead and stepping and it suddenly did stuff that I mentally said “oh! why? that cannot be right...”.
This particular project is a bash tool to encrypt secrets in git called git-secret. No-one had run a debugger as its bash and folks don’t really thinks about debugging bash with breakpoints. Fortunately visual studio code on mac can integrate with bashdb and you can step through. So i made a video to show others on that project how to use a bashdb with vs code.
Maybe you will see something for the first time if you try stepping through code. Just a thought.
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I have never used a debugger. As for me, I have learnt the most by manually tracing and grinding at the code. Yes it may be inefficient but a lot of the times you don't get an expected output due to some wrong logic. I guess manually analyzing code helps catch those.
Great read btw!
Me too, never use debugger, just console.log
I set up a debugger to step through some open source code that I had volunteered to help out with. I was wanting to add a small feature so wanted to step through to get familiar. On the first step through the code I saw a bug that had been around a while and saw some dead code. I wasn’t looking for bugs but I was reading ahead and stepping and it suddenly did stuff that I mentally said “oh! why? that cannot be right...”.
This particular project is a bash tool to encrypt secrets in git called git-secret. No-one had run a debugger as its bash and folks don’t really thinks about debugging bash with breakpoints. Fortunately visual studio code on mac can integrate with bashdb and you can step through. So i made a video to show others on that project how to use a bashdb with vs code.
Maybe you will see something for the first time if you try stepping through code. Just a thought.