I am a big fan of Julia as a programming language, but the lack of a decent debugger keeps turning me away every time I seriously consider changing to it. Now last time I tested the debugging environment out was last summer, and I haven’t really done anything with Julia since or kept up on any pote…

I haven’t needed a debugger with Julia in three years. Your mileage may vary, but it is a pretty nice language to program in.

For me programming without a debugger is like going back to the dark ages of print random print statements scattered around a Fortran code, but yeah I guess everyone does things differently.

There are languages where one simply cannot hope to survive without the debugger. Julia is not one of them.

I had seen the first link, but not the Visual Studio one, which seems promising! From what I can read, the debugger is still not in a place where it would be workable for heavy/large projects, but at least it seems like something is happening. I will check back again in a few months on that and ho…

I do agree with your statements to some extent, which is also why I keep coming back to Julia. But whenever I try to program anything serious in Julia I get frustrated by the amount of time and effort the debugging phase takes compared to all the other languages/IDEs I’m used to. My usual debugging…

Sounds like you want an IDE debugger experience. Julia is strongest when used at the REPL. You should give the REPL based development style of julia a bit more of a chance. It’s more akin to command line tools like gcc and gdb, but with super powers. I’ve found Debugger.jl is pretty good when I …

I haven’t tested this recently (since I cannot use Julia at work), but I had the impression that the Julia debugger(s) were pretty much fully featured. What’s still missing? Performance?

[image] Orbots: Sounds like you want an IDE debugger experience. Julia is strongest when used at the REPL. REPLs and debuggers go hand-in-hand, there’s no reason to chose only one or the other.

The REPL style is very similar to Pythons Spyder approach, and I must admit I don’t like either of those styles. I find they are fine when I’m dealing with simple projects, but when my code starts growing I find it impossible to debug.

Debugger status and future plans?

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Have you seen Debugging · Juno Documentation or GitHub - JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl: Julia debugger or [ANN] VS Code extension v0.15 released - with debugger ?

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Debugger status and future plans?

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