I find windbg a good middle ground between the gdb/lldb style and visual studio overload. source debugging is a minor component of GUI debuggers. Having a gra

I find windbg a good middle ground between the gdb/lldb style and visual studio overload. source debugging is a minor component of GUI debuggers. Having a graphical watch window with multiple variables, looking at registers in a different window while stepping through etc. is invaluable to me. Also stuff like losing mental context because of dumping a long stack in the same window where I was just inspecting disassembly is frigging painful. But I agree about familiarity bias in most cases.