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Do people create stuff like this because they don't have access to good interactive debuggers? Visual Studio user here.
by kyberias 9y ago
Do people create stuff like this because they don't have access to good interactive debuggers? Visual Studio user here.
- Mic92 9y agoI tried visual studio once. It does not allow me to include all kinds of code in the edit-and-compile feature. Also the code I enter in a REPL, I usually don't want to see in my projects. Finally I miss the intermediate feedback of printing the values, when I have entered an expression.
- ken 9y agoThis is an interesting question, but the phrasing sounds a little funny to me. Don't REPLs predate symbolic debuggers? As someone coming from the Lisp world, I've occasionally wondered about the converse: did people create interactive debuggers because their language didn't have a good REPL? I've used Visual Studio before, and it's an impressive technical achievement, but for personal productivity, I'll take a good REPL any day -- as long as the language supports it. That said, good REPLs contain a debugger, and good symbolic debuggers contain a REPL, so they're not entirely exclusive.