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At least in Python I've been able to do some debugging by setting the environmental variable for it...standby while I look up what it is

I am mainly curious around JS/TypeScript and/or Go

console.log takes you a long way even if debugger is available :slightly_smiling_face:

<@UG53R9UJC> Sure but I don't think that's a replacement to be honest...

The strength of using programming languages to do IaC in my honest opinion is the full tooling stack.

Here's the error that was raised that led me there:
```raise RunError('Program run without the `pulumi` CLI; this may not be what you want '+
pulumi.errors.RunError: Program run without the `pulumi` CLI; this may not be what you want (enable PULUMI_TEST_MODE to disable this error)```

<@UMR2CEE4A> if I understand the error message though you aren't really running it against anything but the language run-time.  Meaning you probably aren't getting meaningful information from the cloud provider on failures...

I am just kind of surprised the issue on github has been around for over a year, seems like a pretty critical feature to me.  Not trying to belittle making it happen, I am sure it's not trivial...

I never encountered case where I'd wish I had a debugger.

FWIW - #1372 which would allow launching the user NodeJS program in “debug mode” is likely a very simple thing to add (just allow passing `—inspect` through to the `node` process via some new flag either on `pulumi up` or in `Pulumi.yaml`). PRs very welcome!

FWIW - This is really the only reason we aren't seriously considering using the product.  If the feature was there it would be an easier sell as Terraform does not support that capability.

However, if I ignore debugging then I might as well just stay with Terraform as it is more universally adopted.

typescript compiler catches *a lot* of errors already right when you type it in VSCode, so it is a net win even without debugger

I'd love to see step debugger support. It would _really_ assist learning the language - I'm not a native JS/TS developer - and the frameworks and libraries, both Pulumi specific and otherwise!