Something that's missing in the debugger is "set next statement", something that some c and Java debuggers have. And differential compilation, but that's probably even more difficult. Eg.

# ...
107    sub foo {
108        my $x;
109        $x = 43;
110 =>     die "invalid x!" unless $x == 42;
111        print "Yay!"
112        # ...
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At this point, I notice I have a bug so I edit line 109 (the source code on disk changes):

109        $x = 43;
           # When I hit "save", foo is recompiled. If line numbers
           # have changed, breakpoints are updated.
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And set the next instruction to it again. Then I hit s/n/c/whatever and keep going.

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