I, like pretty much every other human on the planet, like to over-generalize. In keeping with tradition, there seems to be another schism amongst programmers, which is the ones that use printfs to debug and the ones that use debuggers.
Debuggers are magical things, they basically give you a REPL for natively compiled languages that don’t have one. I think every programmer should get acquainted with them, to least know what they can do. Write printfs if you want or must, but at least be aware what’s on offer from “the other side”.
As much as I like debuggers however, sometimes I find it easier to do log-based debugging. Sometimes it’s even necessary. The last one I worked on at work was a timing issue; breakpoints aren’t going to help with that.
Átila on Code 