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If you don’t know what a variable is, or what debugging means, please look away - you might hurt yourself.

Let me introduce you to Apple’s Instruments, another amazing semi-hidden application that comes bundled with OS X Developer Tools (yes, I’m looking at you, Quartz Composer). It isn’t quite hidden, it actually lives under /Developer/Application; I’ve just never heard of it! But a few couple of minutes have blown me completely away. Just when I though It wasn’t possible to love the Apple any more.

Instruments is a super-complete debugging tool that allows you to really focus on application behaviour rather than code. It’s also an amazing software and hardware testing tool, with several modules that can measure everything from CPU time consumption, to UI activity or directories-only I/O. You can use it to run newly created instances of your apps or even by attaching it to running applications.

It is a pretty hardcore application in an extremely pleasant package - the kind with which Apple has pampered us, developers, for quite some time. And it makes me think: with products like this, what the hell have all the other development developers been doing? I mean, I’m still debugging the same way I was when I first started programming

Here are some more lovely screenies. Enjoy.