I recently switched from doing my C/C++ debugging in gdb to Eclipse here are some of my thoughts: -> Eclipse can be easily be started from the command line - e

I recently switched from doing my C/C++ debugging in gdb to Eclipse here are some of my thoughts: -> Eclipse can be easily be started from the command line - e.g. "cdtdebug.sh -e ./a.out". A minimal version of Eclipse opens up, and you can immediately step through code, no need to create projects. -> While GDB TUI mode somewhat mitigates the issue of not having context when debugging it IMHO pales in comparison to seeing the full file in Eclipse. -> In Eclipse I can see so much more information than gdb. I can see several expressions all being updated, memory views, I can highlight expressions in code. With gdb I could only ever see one thing at a time. -> Although GDB has more functionality than Eclipse, I found since I couldn't remember certain GDB commands and so I just didn't use certain features that I find myself constantly using in Eclipse because it's just a click away.