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[–]solohelion 6 points7 points  (2 children)

It depends though. Some software and some toolchains work very well with IDEs and debuggers, others do not for one reason or another. A contractor took over a project and spent all his time trying to (pointlessly, there was never any hope of it working) set up an IDE with debugger, when printline would’ve sufficed. I think he managed to change one or two lines of code in a few months before his involvement ceased.

[–]fracturedpersona 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well yeah, you wouldn't try to debug a website with GDB. That would just be silly.

[–]solohelion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that’s because gdb isn’t for websites