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> trying gdb, I asked myself if this is really what people use. The display constantly breaks and there's not a lot of stuff to quickly walk through code and vi
by matthews2 3y ago
> trying gdb, I asked myself if this is really what people use. The display constantly breaks and there's not a lot of stuff to quickly walk through code and visualize what it's doing
gdb has a tui that can show you multiple panes of information at a time, e.g. the source code, disassembly, and registers.
Other tools like Emacs, Eclipse, and CLion can use gdb as a backend and provide a friendlier interface on top.
- agumonkey 3y agoand it has a python interface so you can improve some stuff if needs be
- jiggawatts 3y ago“You should use a scripting language to make it into something tolerable” is the most damning review of a program you can give. It’s basically saying: “It’s great software, once you finish writing it yourself.”
- agumonkey 3y agoYou can see things that way, but it could also have the wrong UI layer and people wouldn't like it, here you have freedom. But I'm an emacs user so obviously that fits my psychology :)
- jiggawatts 3y agohttps://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc?si=YF-t8NNzDyOmG3QQ https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc?si=YF-t8NNzDyOmG3QQ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome