On: Apple I Emulator (2019)

[makach]

Oh, ho ho ho manical laughter. It is true that outputting relevant values is much more straight, but the power of a debugger; using the call stack, conditional breakpoints, value inspection is transcendental..

Using the debugger is a skill. Don't knock it till you try it.

[actually_a_dog → makach]

Especially when you have a debugger that lets you step backwards!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging

[MrYellowP → makach]

I never needed any of that and I'm an assembly programmer for 35+ years.

Pascal, x86 assembly, arm assembly, Python ... and sometimes even a mix of them running together.