alt Hacker NewsIt's not that people are _still_ using debuggers; it's that people have actually discovered debuggers and workflows that are more productive than adding print statements, recompiling, and rerunning the program.
Casey has been talking about this some time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzD_Ze6zFKA
Also, John Carmack's perspective: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PRE51epznT8
If you need to step with debugger, it means you are probably not understanding the code and cannot step through in your mind. Good test suite eliminates the need to debugger too.