New debugger for D!!!

[Sarath Kodali]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 10:03:03 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-01-28 04:00, Sarath Kodali wrote:
>
>> Next month I will be releasing an alpha version with support 
>> for Linux,
>> x86, Elf+Dwarf, DMD and GCC.
>
> I'm waiting for the OS X version :)
>
>> But in the coming months I will add support
>> for other 64 bit OSes and compilers. 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.
>
> Why not make it useable as a library that can be directly 
> integrated into an IDE.

If dbg is a library, whenever the debugger hangs or crashes, the 
IDE also hangs or crashes and you may loose all your data. It is 
much safer to have dbg as a server and have an IDE plugin as a 
client.