Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-12-20 08:46, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> Perhaps this is habit, retained from a time where the tooling was
> unreliable? You probably haven't spent the majority of your career in
> an environment where you could reliably rely on them, and then as a
> result, never came to rely on them?

I have tried debugging DMD using Xcode. Very often when I inspect 
variables the debugger thinks they're null when they're not. Quite often 
I don't have access to all variables I thought I would have access to.

I don't know if it's something special about the DMD code base, I have 
always thought of it as quite simple, no templates or use of the C++ 
standard library. Perhaps the Visual Studio debugger would work better.

But when it do work it can be very handy.

At work I have used a debugger, although this is for Ruby, which is a 
lot more reliable and a real pleasure to use. I can navigate inside 
objects, inspect their private state, call private methods and other 
more fancy stuff. Very handy.

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/Jacob Carlborg