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Not exactly what you were asking, but RAD tried to build a debugger for Linux^1, but the project died. I’ve heard the people at RAD described as hard core old s
by Decabytes 4y ago
Not exactly what you were asking, but RAD tried to build a debugger for Linux^1, but the project died. I’ve heard the people at RAD described as hard core old school programmers, so if they struggled with this it must just be a hard problem
1. http://www.radgametools.com/debug.htm http://www.radgametools.com/debug.htm
- bluedino 4y ago>> To put it bluntly, debugging on Linux is just really bad. We believe it is the biggest roadblock to great software for that platform. That article is ~10 years old, is that still true?
- GuB-42 4y agoFor me it is. Linux has great debugging tools, my favorite being valgrind, and I have used rr a few times, but when it comes to traditional debugging, still bad. For me, gdb is a last resort tool, and none of its frontends satisfy me (Qt Creator is the least bad I tried). I generally prefer developing on Linux, but for me, the Visual Studio (not Code) debugger is the one thing that Windows does way better.
- mort96 4y agoGDB is still the king of debugging on Linux. GDB is still a really bad debugging experience. GDB front-ends are still incredibly buggy and best avoided unless you wanna debug why your debugger just broke.