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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As linus says, if you need to use a debugger your code is too complicated

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He works on Linux where he controls the whole stack down to the metal and I love that for him, but other people have to call library code, and them debug that if it doesn't work as they thought it would.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well then obviously if you use libraries, your code is too complicated

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yep that's why I refuse to use standard libraries. It just makes my code too complicated...

[–] BleatingZombie 2 points 1 month ago

Tell that to my employer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Right, the amount of times I've had to put breakpoints in Django/DRF code to figure out what's causing that weird undocumented behavior is concerningly large

[–] Theharpyeagle 11 points 1 month ago

Dude can pry my debugger from my cold, dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The problem is that sometimes it's not your code that you're debugging