Like if I’m using print statements to test my code. Is it okay to leave stuff like that in there when “publishing” the app/program?
Edit: So I meant logging. Not “tests”. Using console.log to see if the code is flowing properly. I’ll study up on debugging. Also, based on what I managed to grasp from your very helpful comments, it is not okay to do, but the severity of how much of an issue it is depends on the context? Either that or it’s completely avoidable in the first place if I just use “automated testing” or “loggers”.
Certainly not best practice. The reason I referred to the term is that “best” implies a spectrum of acceptability, where the “never OK” end of the spectrum includes stuff like storing user credentials in plaintext.
But also, if anything but best practice was truly never OK, there are many smaller programs that wouldn’t see the light of day, and there definitely wouldn’t be any junior developers.