New debugger for D!!!

[Sarath Kodali]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 16:24:32 UTC, dennis luehring 
wrote:
> Am 28.01.2014 17:16, schrieb Sarath Kodali:
>> 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.
>
> its a little bit different to pin because pin is the host
> of the given tool-communication dll - so the dll interface is 
> the interface not JSON
>
> (pin(tool dll<--)-- any protocol --> ide/whatever
>
> in your idea
>
> dbg <--- socker/JASON --> ide/whatever
>
> the question is - debuggers needs to throw masses
> of information around - why put a slow JSON parser between, 
> every single step command gets JSONed, parsed, singlestep, 
> result gets JSOned etc... millions of times - why?

I'm not fixated on JSON :) I thought that is more popular 
now-a-days :). Today dbg outputs in human readable format. After 
the alpha release, I will add the machine readable format - what 
everyone prefers.