On 3/28/23 6:42 PM, ryuukk_ wrote:
Am i the only want who want to improve things, is it a lost cause?
I'm not one to use a debugger often, but it is very helpful for many people. I lament that the Windows debugging situation out of the box is dreadful. The students I teach D to I don't show the debugger because I'm worried it would confuse them more than help.
I both don't use Windows and mostly do debugging via writeln, so for something that doesn't affect me much, I tend not to put effort in. I'm hoping someone who is motivated enough will do it.
If I recall correctly, visual studio debugging is better than the other solutions. But I don't know having never got debugging to work. I've heard that mago is supposed to work better, and was written for D, but is Visual Studio dependent: https://github.com/rainers/mago
I wonder if there isn't some way to make this work well for other IDEs? I couldn't get it to work on VSCode.
Should i move on?
In any case, the debugging experience isn't perfect, but seems like a drastic measure to leave D altogether if you can't debug globals.
-Steve
