Thank you so much! This is incredibly helpful.

Trust me, I’m far from the delusion that I can write a program that does the things I want it to on the first try haha. By “I think it works” I mean that the code is to the point where at least visually I can’t detect any obvious issues and VSC isn’t throwing up any red flags, either. But when I try to run the program, it throws an error message and a line number, which I have to take back to VSC and edit blindly without any view of the variables and context. Swapping back and forth is becoming a huge headache. A debugger, even one as simple as just installing the ImageJ package into VSC(don’t know how to do this) and telling me when I’m calling a function wrong, would be massively helpful.

Please don’t hesitate, absentee mods are always going to be a thing and admin intervention is going to be required if we don’t want to be hopping from server to server every time someone quits lemmy. Hopefully it will take some work off of your plate as well.