Comments on: The debugger is your friend; even in Java http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/the-debugger-is-your-friend-even-in-java/ Thoughts of a minor lunatic Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:02:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Min Huang http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/the-debugger-is-your-friend-even-in-java/#comment-52065 Min Huang Sat, 24 May 2008 20:36:37 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2008/05/06/the-debugger-is-your-friend-even-in-java/#comment-52065 I've written Java professionally at a couple of different places, and I've never been able to live without the debugger. It's not like working with Smalltalk, no, but if you didn't make too many changes (like change a method signature), you can usually hot swap code in a running servlet container. I used to work at a small company with a lot of inexperienced devs, none of whom knew how to work a debugger. Most of them couldn't even work Eclipse. I've also worked at a more mature consulting company, and the debugger was just a part of our daily lives. It's just a tool every good developer needs to be have in his arsenal, and it doesn't really matter what his/her primary language is. Why all the hate against Java? Geez. (Note: Don't take me the wrong way; I jumped ship to Scala. But I still don't think Java is the worst language in the world) I’ve written Java professionally at a couple of different places, and I’ve never been able to live without the debugger. It’s not like working with Smalltalk, no, but if you didn’t make too many changes (like change a method signature), you can usually hot swap code in a running servlet container.

I used to work at a small company with a lot of inexperienced devs, none of whom knew how to work a debugger. Most of them couldn’t even work Eclipse. I’ve also worked at a more mature consulting company, and the debugger was just a part of our daily lives.

It’s just a tool every good developer needs to be have in his arsenal, and it doesn’t really matter what his/her primary language is. Why all the hate against Java? Geez.

(Note: Don’t take me the wrong way; I jumped ship to Scala. But I still don’t think Java is the worst language in the world)

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