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One thing these IDEs had was an integrated debugger. It seems Unix/Linux really got a nice integrated debugger with ann IDE and gdb is powerful, it is very cum
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
One thing these IDEs had was an integrated debugger.
It seems Unix/Linux really got a nice integrated debugger with ann IDE and gdb is powerful, it is very cumbersome. Hence, it seems there is a lot more printf debugging on Unix, and less use of debuggers than say on Windows where Visual C++ and Borland Turbo C++ both had very easy to use debugging integrated into the IDE.
- pjmlp 3y agoCommercial UNIXes had nice graphical debuggers like dbx on HP-UX, while Solaris and NeXTSTEP had good IDEs. Linux eventually got DDD. Unknown to most is that gdb has a TUI, and is highly scriptable in Python.
- lsllc 3y agoAgreed, for the most part debugging has gone backwards (aside from Xcode, Visual Studio 20xx) and was always pretty bad on UNIX. Still amazes me that there isn't a really nice, batteries included TUI debugger (e.g Periscope!).