Extendscript debugger plugin nightmare
Hi,
As a script developer, my main job is develop automation solutions for prepress and marketing professionals. Based in Europe, budgets are tight. Projects are billed by the hour. Every minute is crucial. Using reliable development solutions is a key ingredient in delivering solutions on time, within budget. Previous year, Adobe replaced the long overdue Extendscript by a VS code plugin.
Unfortunately, problems significantly increased. Last week I did a small projects on a small budget. Due to serious debugging issues when using the plugin, an 8 hour job became a 36 hour job.
24 hours could not be billed. At the end, I had to switch back to Extendscript toolkit to be able to Finnish the task.
Some of my issues:
The content of variables are empty or not displayed.

Every few minutes, the extention crashes

Array content not visible. Variable is extended. No items are displayed.

The content of the variables are swapped between the local view and the watch ( _myGroup < - > myGroupsFinal. The content of a variable is not always displayed correctly and is not reliable

Ghost data present in Local view. myGroupsFinal contains data but it has just been initialised.

Adobe, To whom can I send our bill? Who is going to pay for all lost time using your software?
Please build high level quality solutions which do not contain so many bugs. I don't care in which country you outsource your development, but make sure that every product meets the highest criteria and standards. It seems this product was never tested before releasing it to the public.
Thanks
