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A debugger doesn't show you the evolution of your program over time. A few well placed prints give you that.

I use my debugger often, but sometimes you need to track the value of something over time (say, over 1000 iterations) and a debugger can't show you that.

So prints are still relevant. Debugger are more for "needle-in-haystack" stuff I think.

A debugger that could record the execution over time (and query that execution), that would be great. I know there are some, but are there for python for example ?



> I know there are some

Do you mind providing examples? I’m not sure what I would search to find that and I’m interested in the idea.


I've never used it but sounds like https://rr-project.org/




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