I don’t mind using a debugger, but one of the advantages to printed debugging is that it is universal. I work on a project with code in five languages (6 if you count the build system, 7 if you add shell scripts). Two of them I know the debugger very well. One of them I might be able to get by. One of the others I might have use the debugger once and the last I’ve never touched.

printf debugging works in all of them, even the build system and shell scripts.

A debugger can be great, no question about it, even for remote debugging. In my experience, I’ve seen fewer people effectively debug unfamiliar systems quickly.

That’s just bc most tooling is utter crap, except for Java+eclipse