A new debugger for Linux - would it work for D?

[Walter Bright]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> I thinks it would be a good idea (architecturally and ethically) that 
>> Zero provide
>> hooks for D-supporting plugins and shared objects. Such modules could 
>> be open
>> source themselves, or othewise licensed, as their respective authors 
>> see fit. The
>> demangler for example is already based on a factory pattern (it deals 
>> with legacy
>> gcc and the Itanium ABI), and delegating to a .so that implements D 
>> demangling
>> would not be very hard to do.
> 
> That would work as well, of course.

It would be better for D users if support was built in, so it would work 
out of the box with no hassle. Having the hooks for plugins, however, is 
still a very good idea and should be done. That will help future proof 
the debugger.