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There is IMO a lot of value in decoupling the editor from the debugger.

• alangpierce 8y ago
  I would say that decoupling the editor from the debugger makes debugging more accessible, since people can choose whatever editor they feel like using and still have a nice way to debug. That's a great thing, since I think a lot of people are intimidated by the amount of up-front setup and learning you need to get a really great debugging experience, and it's easier to maintain one debugging system than one for every editor. On the other hand, integrating the editor and debugger certainly has more potential than keeping them separate. Switching back and forth between the ndb editor and your main editor is obviously not an ideal experience compared with having everything work in one editor, and IDE features like "click the play button next to the test (or equivalent keyboard shortcut) to run that specific test" or TypeScript-assisted navigation/autocomplete are things that I don't expect ndb to implement any time soon. Of course, ndb could implement these things, but then it's just becoming another editor rather than decoupling the two.
• seanmcdirmid 8y ago
  How are breakpoints re synced after a line adding/deleting edit occurs?