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

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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.

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

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

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Tell that to my employer

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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

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

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

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