I know profilers and debuggers are a boon for productivity, but anecdotally I’ve found they’re seldom used. How often do you use debuggers/profilers in your work? What’s preventing you? conversely, what enables you to use them?

  • pinkpatrol@anarch.isOP
    3·
    1 year ago

    How do people do stuff without debuggers? :D

    Another way to develop would be through iterating within a Unit Test that you don’t plan to keep around.

    Uh, I set a breakpoint and run the app?

    To add a bit more context, it’s more difficult to configure a debugger when the application is running within something like Docker. How difficult? That depends on the language and tools you’re using.

    • Nicktar@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen the fun of “prints everywhere” in production when a colleague forgot to remove a “Why the fuck do you end up here?” followed by a bunch of variables before committing a hot-fix… Customers weren’t to amused…

      Edit: That was a PHP driven web shop and the message ended up on to of the checkout page

    • aksdb@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      We run almost everything on bare metal during development. The ci/cd pipeline runs containerized and also produces a container with the application inside, that then gets deployed to production. But we don’t debug on production, so that isn’t an issue.