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Speaking of better in the old days, MSVC in the 90s had edit and continue, where you could stop in a debugger, change the source code and move the current break

by rr808 10mo ago

Speaking of better in the old days, MSVC in the 90s had edit and continue, where you could stop in a debugger, change the source code and move the current breakpoint back and run it again. Even VBA had this 30 years ago, why cant I do in Python?

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efaref 10mo ago
The visual IDEs of the 90s (MSVC, Borland Delphi, heck even MS Visual Basic) were way more tightly integrated, performant and usable than anything we have today, despite running on hardware with a fraction of the power. It seems so bizarre how much we've regressed.
- lostmsu 10mo ago
  MSVC is still here in 2025.
sam_lowry_ 10mo ago
You can still do it in Java.
- rr808 10mo ago
  The best I can do is rebuild the class, then when the function runs next time you get the new code. Is that what you mean? Quarkus is good like this too.
  - pjmlp 10mo ago
    There is better than that. https://www.jrebel.com/products/jrebel https://www.jrebel.com/products/jrebel
zzo38computer 10mo ago
Microsoft QuickBasic does too, which I sometimes still use when programming on DOS (one of the reasons for this being what efaref mentioned about performance and usability and being regressed); and also has a "immediate mode" that you can enter BASIC commands and execute them; I think this is helpful.
goodthink 10mo ago
I call bullsh*t. None of those IDE's had any such feature.
- dgan 10mo ago
  What? Excel has this today. Open your VBA/Developer window
- rr808 10mo ago
  I found a video! 14 years ago and its C#, but VC++ had this in the 90s too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6J34B37wUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6J34B37wUc
general1465 10mo ago
.NET can hot reload during debugging session. Even that I never get used on this feature and just restarting debugging from scartch.