Debugger Capabilities Debate
Discussions center on the features, limitations, and effectiveness of debuggers, including breakpoints, stepping, and their support in new technologies or tools featured in the article.
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MS EXE e.g DEBUG.EXE callstacking.com launch.json DEBUG Commands.html xdebug.org i.e debugger debugging debug debuggers executing snapshots step exe trace reproduce
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Debuggers won't like you :)
Could this be used to build better debuggers?
How’s debugging and breakpoints for these?
Debuggers don't work in the situation you described either.
You're wrong, it very much does work for debugger
You my friend need to experience an interactive debugger.
100% of my debug sessions are with plain breakpoints and stepping. So it's here for me!
So, it's a debugger? tthat can't break/single step...
Can someone explain how this is a debugger?
I use a debugger, tell that to all the people using LLMs.