How do you use debuggers?

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I’ve developed the habit of coding without a debugger since coming to Julia. However, when I speak about Julia to other colleagues (scientists), they often ask two questions:

  1. “Does it have an IDE?” → for which I can speak about the greatness of Juno.

  2. “Does it have a (MATLAB-like) debugger?” → For which I need to tell them “no”.

Usually, the interest fade after they learn that there is no debuggers, even if I already told them that Julia is fast and proven it to them.

The thing is, scientists are not programmers. Some of them are really good, but most of them would fail the majority of CS courses.

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