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I'm comfortable with debugging, but I rarely use it with Rust. With the language being so strict in everything, it's clear most of the time what's happening, and most situations can be resolved by simple logging of variables.
In JavaScript, I have to use the debugger all the time, since variables can get some really weird invalid values with the completely wrong type.
That's my favorite part about rust. Each step of the program is so well defined. No wondering if something will be uninitialized, throw, be null, or worse, what type of data you are working with in the first place. The option and result types have made working in languages without them a slog.