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Anyone fully competent in both this and GUD on emacs? Have any thoughts? I feel like I'm wandering around too much in all of these debuggers and can't seem to
by kristopolous 3y ago
Anyone fully competent in both this and GUD on emacs? Have any thoughts?
I feel like I'm wandering around too much in all of these debuggers and can't seem to use them to drill down effectively but I haven't really been able to conceptualize what I'd change.
It's like I want a higher level organizational abstraction. The number of moving pieces seems to exhaust my personal working memory for really challenging problems and I quickly get disorganized with all the watches and breakpoints. Maybe there's opportunities for an AI debugging assistant.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agoI have experimented with them a bit. I've used GUD a bit with PDB, GDB, and LLDB, and vimspector with GDB, but Intellij and Visual Studio offer a lot more functionality, are far better documented, much more user friendly, and far less brittle. I really think it makes sense to just use programs that are more optimal for debugging. There are a few exceptions: Common Lisp has a best-in-class debugger in Emacs thanks to João Távora, and same for Racket thanks to Greg Hendershott. I wish I could say GNU guile has a good debugging support in GNU emacs, but that is sadly not the case.