New debugger for D!!!

[Sarath Kodali]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 06:34:50 UTC, dennis luehring 
wrote:
> Am 28.01.2014 04:00, schrieb Sarath Kodali:
>> I'm also
>> planning to add a JSON or CSV output format so that it will be
>> easy to parse the output when integrating with IDEs. So I would
>> recommend that you wait till I release 1.0 version - sometime
>> before Dconf 2014 - hopefully!
>
> why don't ease the IDE integration even more - for example
> the pin tool from intel (ptools.org) is a normal executable 
> (the server)
> but you can give pin a tool/commander dll per commandline which 
> is then responsible for controling the debugger - this way its 
> very easy to integrate the debugger into any environment fast 
> and performant
>
> examples
>
> pin.exe -t idadbg.dll <- starts pin with an IDA-tool-dll to be 
> able to
> control pin with the ida debugger
>
> pin.exe -t vsdbg.dll <- starts pin with an vs-studio debug 
> helper
> this way you can use pin as an debugger for VStudio
>
> etc.
>
> csv and json is nice - but there a much nicer ways of doing ipc

I expect this is how it will be even with dbg and IDEs. The IDE 
will have a plugin that sits between the debugger and IDE. The 
communication between the IDE plugin and debugger will be over a 
socket and the dbg output will be in JSON format so that IDE 
plugin can parse it properly. Depending on the IDE, the plugin 
will be either a library (dll) or an independent executable.