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neongreen 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (...

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 3 months ago [–]

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.

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