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It comes from Apple and is bsd-licensed. In this community, this passes for "enhancements" over gdb. Yes, this is a bitter comment about the HN community state
by wazoox 16y ago
It comes from Apple and is bsd-licensed. In this community, this passes for "enhancements" over gdb. Yes, this is a bitter comment about the HN community state of mind.
- pohl 16y agoYeah, pesky entrepreneurs and their eye for opportunity.
- wazoox 16y agoWell, my company only works on gpl stuff and doesn't suffer any inconvenience from that. So I call bluff.
- pohl 16y agoYou're saying that being able to statically link a library into a commercial app has no business value to anybody because you are fortunate enough to have found a niche where you didn't need to. Your personal experience is enviable, but I don't see how it speaks to the general case.
- wazoox 16y agoI actually think that proprietary software is morally wrong anyway. Blasphemy! :)
- neilc 16y agoI think that's far too cynical. gdb is fine, but there is tons of room for improvement, and more competition in this area can only be a good thing. It is early days yet for LLDB, but it is a promising start. I've yet to see any IDE/debugger setup on a Unixen that comes close to competiting with Visual Studio's debugging interface, as unfortunate as that is.
- wazoox 16y agoYou're absolutely right. However lldb hasn't gone that far so we can't know for sure if it will ever be any better than gdb. I'll admit easily that gcc messages/gdb debugging actually suck wind :)