While graphical debuggers are great overall, there are times when I prefer to get down to the command line and do my debugging there. And quite surprisingly, I don't lose much efficiency there, either.
But then, this could be the story of most command line utilities: Seems fiddly at first, but actually it is quite usable and often times more convenient than all those whiz-bang graphical tools.
The only thing I like about graphical debuggers is the ease of which you can set up multi-window dashboards. I can have my stack windows a few watched variables and the code all on one screen at the same time as I step through the program
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While graphical debuggers are great overall, there are times when I prefer to get down to the command line and do my debugging there. And quite surprisingly, I don't lose much efficiency there, either.
But then, this could be the story of most command line utilities: Seems fiddly at first, but actually it is quite usable and often times more convenient than all those whiz-bang graphical tools.
The only thing I like about graphical debuggers is the ease of which you can set up multi-window dashboards. I can have my stack windows a few watched variables and the code all on one screen at the same time as I step through the program