DConf 2014 Day 2 Talk 6: Debugging in D by Iain Buclaw

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 15.07.2014 04:35, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On 15 July 2014 04:27, Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
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>     On 14.07.2014 08:22, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
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>         There are alternative tools available for windows too, but I
>         think the
>         key for Windows developers remains proper integration into Visual
>         Studio, and PDB support.
>         I guess the biggest hurdle there is integrating D concepts info into
>         MS's proprietary PDB format. Expressing debug info like C really
>         won't
>         get us the full mile.
>         Rainer bundles Mago with VisualD. I wonder what that's doing
>         lately...
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>     Aldo has put a lot of work in extending mago to 64-bit. I guess the
>     next version of Visual D will come with it.
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> Does that mean it's working?

Yes, it might have a few quirks left, though.

> It's very hard to tell from the project website. TBH, I actually thought
> Mago was a dead project for years because the last activity on the
> website looks like 2012.

If you check the mago64 branch, it shows activity about 2 months ago.

> He should consider moving to github, then we can have some visibility.
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>     Mago had D expression evaluation from the start, showing associative
>     array elements was added a bit later.
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