Hello, I didn't see an answer but it looks like debug-ability of Pulumi programs is still not possible yet. Is that true? (based on this issue: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1372)

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 🙂

@best-xylophone-83824 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.

Try setting that and see if it works

@numerous-easter-93888 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 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

so does terraform plugin

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!