Terrible Debugging Practices

Written By Nahkki

Today was super productive. I fixed a bunch of bugs I added on Tuesday and improved the scoring functionality and the fast forward functionality. By which I mean … they now work. Woo.

Anyway while doing this I was in discord chilling and I realized just how terrible I am at debugging. I mean look at this!

A godot debugging screen that shows completely nonsensical debugging comments like "HERE" and "Screen Exit?" and "ALSO HERE".

My typical Debugging window at any given time. What does HERE mean? I dunno. I sure hope someone is confident on whether or not we’ve exited the screen cause I ain’t.

I mean print line debugging is one thing but ‘HERE’ vs ‘ALSO HERE’ are not giving me a lot of confidence that I won’t be fixing a whole lotta more bugs tomorrow from my work here today.

Nahkki
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