February 7, 2014 - One of the great benefits of TDD/BDD is that you usually don’t have to spend much, if any time at all in a debugger. To enter a debugger is to admit a loss of control over the system under test. Even so, there are times when you do need to debug something, even if you’re maintaining the discipline.
Lately, most of my coding is in GoLang. Coming from using an IDE almost exclusively to write Python (using PyCharm) and C# (using VS and ReSharper), and knowing how great the visual debugging tools are it’s hard to fathom using a console-based debugger for GoLang code. Continue reading »