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Since VB is mentioned I guess I can mention another language that have good open source debuggers: Java. For all its warts Java has a pretty decent open sourc
by eitland 10y ago
Since VB is mentioned I guess I can mention another language that have good open source debuggers:
Java.
For all its warts Java has a pretty decent open source community and many of the best tools in Java land are open source.
For example all the three major IDEs are available in open source versions, two of them are completely open source (although you can get commercial plugins) and all have decent debuggers.
- RX14 10y agoYes. The one thing I miss from Java development the most is debugging code from IntelliJ IDEA. Its just a fantastic experience to be able to step through line by line and see what's really going on, where it branches on each iteration and what state is changed. IntelliJ shows the current values of each variable next to where they are used in the source view, which really helps to narrow down the variables which are currently important.
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoThe debugger that is available in JetBrain's CLion IDE provides a good chunk of the IntelliJ IDEA debugger interface for C/C++. Likewise, AppCode does the same for Objective-C. They wrap around LLDB.
- grandinj 10y agoHear hear! This is, however, because the VM abstracts the bulk of the low level nastiness and exposes a reasonable API, which reduces the effort involved by an order of magnitude.