Re: Getting rid of Dev mode for future GWT releases

I don't know why this is such a controversial topic. The debugger is just another tool in the developer's toolbox. I'm a huge proponent of TDD, and when you get code with a high percentage of code coverage, I hardly ever go into a debugger. There are other times when, even when all incidental complexity is removed from a code base, there is enough intrinsic complexity that when things break, its faster to just go and look what is really being returned by a function, or the order of events. A debugger is really good for that.

Heck a debugger is a good tool to learn about a new framework - set some breakpoints in code you don't yet understand and step through it until you understand it.

So - my opinion - reducing the functionality of the debugger (moving from DevMode to SDM, for example) is in fact a loss of useful features and a reduction in the power of the tools at my disposal. I can use SDM - but it only covers like 50% of the functionality I use in a JVM debugger.

On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 12:29:53 PM UTC-5, Ed wrote:

@Frank: you are absolutely right, but it's difficult to generalize this, as it highly depends on your situation.

On 10 December 2015 at 18:01, Frank <frank....@gmail.com> wrote:

If you have to read code for hours to solve a problem without a debugger I think you have some bigger problems with your code than some bugs... (code structure)

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