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Debugging Swift is terrible right now in Xcode, unless I am not doing it right. Some values can be seen, others are inexplicably missing. Coming from Java/IntelliJ, it's a hopeless mess.

I hope that Xcode/Swift gets better in the debugging department soon. NSLog() is a rough way to see values. It's just so 1996.

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>I hope that Xcode/Swift gets better in the debugging department soon. NSLog() is a rough way to see values. It's just so 1996.

Well, XCode also has the Swift Playground, with live values updating next to your code etc. Java/IntelliJ don't have that (of course XCode's implementation is beta too, and might not work on some cases).

Playground however is just a place for playing with snippets of code. And experiment and learn environment. If you have a bug in a running app, it's just not possible to recreate the problem except for the simplest of apps.

print and println just works for any value. But yeah, breakpoint and PO at doesn't work for debugging at the moment.

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