[neongreen]

I used the debugger all the time when I was writing in Pascal (and later Delphi). It was great.

Then I switched to Haskell. No (useful) debugger there.

Now I write TypeScript, and.. somehow I never figured out how to do debugging in JS properly. Always something broken. Breakpoints don’t break, VSCode can’t connect to Node, idk. Maybe I should try again.

[LorenPechtel]

The Borland Pascal had a problem with too much debug data. By the time that program got retired I could turn on the symbols for a few percent of the code, set a breakpoint and examine the situation when it triggered but not continue at that point.