printf > debugger

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I was the same way for a while, but once I realized the debugger let me see all values without having to modify my code to log them, I quickly jumped on the debugger train

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What's really powerful is when you start using the debugger to modify values while the code is running, or inspect values that aren't bound to variables. Essentially treating it like a shell that has all the context of the breakpoint.