I spend my life in emacs (comments passim) but I put it to you that M-x gdb is mostly unpleasant, as is gdb --tui. Both pale in comparison to visual studio 10-1

I spend my life in emacs (comments passim) but I put it to you that M-x gdb is mostly unpleasant, as is gdb --tui. Both pale in comparison to visual studio 10-15 years ago. The OP and the post which the OP is following up to both mention those debugger interfaces.