• qprimed@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    because, sometimes, having your program vomit all over your console is the best way to remain focused on the problem.

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      1 year ago

      This is the reason for me. Sometimes I don’t want to step through the code and just want to scan through a giant list of output.

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      1 year ago

      Similarly, every once in a while I’ll throw warning messages (which I can’t ship) to encourage me to go back and finish that TODO instead of letting it linger.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. And there’s plenty of places where setting up a live debug stream is a massive PITA, and finding the log files is only a huge PITA.

      Edit: But I’ve been promised AI will do both soon, so I’ll stop stressing over it. /s