# Safety/Debuggability

> The degree to which treating code as manipulable data can obscure what runs and make it harder to debug.

Record: `lexicon:safety-debuggability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Declarative Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/declarative-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-safety-debuggability

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Program Transformation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/program-transformation.md) and before [String-Based Code Generation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/string-based-code-generation.md).

## Category

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)

## In tension with

- [Code as Data](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/code-as-data.md)
- [Code as Data / Safety/Debuggability](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/code-as-data-safety-debuggability.md)

## Linked from

- [Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-metaprogramming-language-oriented-architecture.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)