RemedyBG as a windows D debugger

[Luna]

On Tuesday, 5 August 2025 at 00:54:14 UTC, Tony~! wrote:
> I have been coding some simple examples in D to get the hang of 
> the language although it's really similar to C. I on one of the 
> sites recommended that 
> [remedyBG](https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg) could be used as 
> a paid debugger and I've used it before for a C++ program. 
> Nobody on this forum seems to have mentioned it yet as a D 
> debugger.
>
> [ImgBB image](https://i.ibb.co/rGrR84zd/Remedy-BG-D-Code-01.png)
>
> Suprisingly it works quite well, it works on both with dmd and 
> ldc2 compilers. The dissasembly shows up and things in the 
> watch window mostly work. Structs and classes work with basic 
> types but I could not get tuples to show up in the watch window.
>
> RemedyBG just worked right out of the box, I was trying to get 
> gdb to work with either of the compilers and I just couldn't 
> get it to find the symbols.
>
> If you are on Windows 10 or 11 I would recommend remedyBG for 
> debugging D, in my estimation it is well worth the price 
> especially if you also want to test C/C++ files in the future.

There is a switch to emit C++-like debug info; dub also has the 
"debugInfoC" build option to handle it across compilers. May help 
a bit with templated types.