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pjmlp04/25/20251 replyview on HN

Depends, Azure definitely has the integrations needed for modern debugging.

With application insights and event tracing, that can be event plugged and debugged postmortem on Visual Studio.

Java world has similar ways with JMX, Visual VM and JFR.

Another great one on part with these two for distributed computing are Erlang based systems.

Finally we have language agnostic ways to do similar workflows based on open telemetry, even if code reload is not part of it.

Step debugging is the hello world version of how to use a debugger.


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taeric04/25/2025

Agreed that step debugging is the hello world, but I still think it is a better development tool than it is a bug finder.

I'd love to start celebrating more use of these, if you have recommended articles to spread exposure to.