I think a lot of people that criticize debuggers think professionals use them like a first year CS student, as a crutch because they don't understand the language they learning.
A professional uses them to trap events and then explore the programs state. And to inject faults and watch how the program explodes, or not. In that debuggers are vastly better than printf debugging.
A professional uses them to trap events and then explore the programs state. And to inject faults and watch how the program explodes, or not. In that debuggers are vastly better than printf debugging.