It's as if you didn't read the comment I wrote and started foaming at the mouth at the chance to say RTFA as is HN tradition. (Or didn't read the article closely enough yourself)
He said explicitly, he used a debugger.
He came to understand the value of having a proper mental model of your code, but the comment I replied to said they had never used a debugger.
My comment was about the difference between knowing how to problem solve without a debugger, and straight up never having used it
There's nothing wrong with having more tools in your toolbox
> This is a serious question because in 5+ years of programming I have never used a debuggers. The only time I used a debugger was when I was learning to program and to trace out for loops.
They're saying it themselves, "yeah technically once I used it when I was figuring out how for loops work".
I wouldn't say I've ever written a Brainfuck program even though once I messed around with a hello world on an online interpreter
Leave it to people here to say a comment doesn't say literally the exact words it says
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The spirit of multiple replies, not just mine is debuggers are an option you should at least be familiar with before tossing aside, even if you do end up not needing them
It's the preference of the people referenced by Person B.
Person A the word _never_, the definition of absolutism.
You're literally making my point, a preference towards not using debugger not a limitation, an absolutist approach of never having used one professionally could be.
It's not like I said "OMG go use one right now or your career will fail" either before you latch onto that too. I said even those guys with a preference away from them, have used them professionally
Didn't think I'd be spelling out 1st grade reading comprehension on HN but here we are.
Why this sudden increase who think turning off their critical thinking skills to go "gotcha" because you didn't write out your comment like a thesis is something positive?
