There's no mention here of inspecting core files, something that very much allows you to inspect the state of a program when the bug occurred, but after the fact. Is this because inspecting core files also sucks, since it's a snapshot of a point in time, and it's no use if your stack is corrupted? Or is it because this is a lost art?

In my embedded work I avoided using debuggers because setting up remote debugging can be a PITA. I figured out a long time ago that building remote debug setup into my workflow will save oodles of time in the end. Still, I find myself using plain old logging more often than not - the bug may not be in C or C++, it may be on the JavaScript run in the interpreter embedded in that C++ application.