If I have easy access to a debugger. It’s extra work to hook things up to a debugger, and there are certain restrictions that may apply (attach too late if process launch is not under our control, program may behave differently, etc.). If I do have access to a debugger, often I will just do “printf debugging” there by setting a breakpoint and adding an action to “p someVariable; c”. Usually I treat my debugger a sort of IPython for statically compiled languages, to mess around with and inspect values as programs are executing.