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At my last job I debugged a subtle race condition in obsofucated js and I made no progress with a debugger for a long time but eventually sufficient print statements made it obvious.

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Tweet 2

This might be a debugger skill issue but I like how print statements keep a log of what you've seen. I don't want to see the state. I want to see the evolution. And if I step through it's easy to go too fast to notice the step I should have been surprised in. Or go too slow

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Tweet 3

The obsofucated js part might also be a skill issue because I could have turned off the minification to some extent. But I briefly thought the bug was in a dependency. And figuring out how to build it unminified would have been hard. But I was able to build it with prints

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