Comment by cle
4 years ago
Perhaps it has to do with dynamism? I find myself "debugging" way more in dynamic languages that emphasize interactive development. At that point, the line between running code and debugging gets pretty blurry, since "stopping" execution at some arbitrary place is not very different from normal development anyway.
I think this is a really good split in methodology to identify. I've noticed the same in the way I debug static vs dynamic languages. It seems to reflect the nature of the language; dynamic languages are powerful because they are fuzzy, but that comes at the cost of comprehension, and static languages tend to be the opposite.