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    You need to learn how to use a debugger and use a proper logging framework. It will make you much happier than printing to the console (that doesn't always exist). Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 22:13
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    It is important to learn to use debuggers, however, there are many situations you may encounter where printf debugging is the only debugging method available. Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 23:13
  • I'll just comment that 7 years later - for JavaScript development, then yes - console.log is the primary debugging strategy I use. For Java development it's a bit more of a pain as a compiling and rerunning your code is often a lot more cumbersome. Commented May 20, 2021 at 3:56