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Agreed, debuggers can be nice to have but they are mostly a crutch.... Write modular code with unit tests and you find your need for debuggers is really a rarity


Not every codebase you are working with (or would be working with) has unit tests.

Sometimes you’ll inherit such a project from a dev who left and you would be begging for a debugger.

Otherwise failing that, then the rewrite begins... Debuggers save us that effort in such a codebase.


This. Only time I use debugger working on C# is on crash dumps.




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