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FWIW, I feel like I he this kind of productivity with server-side rendered ASP.NET Core web apps.

Something that is great about .NET is the available tooling - the debuggers in both Visual Studio and Rider are amazing, and it's difficult to imagine living without them.

AFAIK, you're relegated to rather primitive "println debugging" with Elixir - has this been an issue for you in practice?

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> AFAIK, you're relegated to rather primitive "println debugging" with Elixir - has this been an issue for you in practice?

Not at all. The traditional BEAM way of debugging is the tracing modules. For little things an `IEx.pry()` is often good enough though.

> The traditional BEAM way of debugging is the tracing modules

Excuse my ignorance, but by "tracing modules", do you mean "println debugging"?

I had a quick look at IEx.pry(), which at a glace I think gives you a repl at a given breakpoint? It looks like it also requires you to instrument your code with breakpoints, which TBH feels a bit ugly (but could presumably be solved with the right IDE)

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