Recently, we got tons of feedback about the need for a debugger in Julia: [image] List of most desired features for Julia v1.x Community In this thread I’d like to share my list of most desired features for Julia v1.x: The ability to manipulate types in a parametric typ…

Does anyone know what the status is on Juno Rebugger integration? Juno has so many repositories and packages that I can never tell what is going on, or even what is new in each release. As for needing a debugger, I’m one of those who can never figure out what my code is doing without stepping throu…

[image] DNF: More than five lines of code and I need a debugger Have you tried test driven development ? Idea is to write your test first to define what your code should be doing and then just code until your test passes. This typically leads to really nice looking code space with a lot of wel…

I’m sure it’s a powerful paradigm. But it’s such a radical departure from my normal workflow, or even way of thinking, that it probably won’t be a quick switch.

Rebugger integrates into Juno in the sense that Juno supports a REPL console, but there is no stepping yet. I’m now convinced it is necessary, so it is on the TODO list.

‘when I was playing with heavy parallel programming on a cluster’ that’s exactly what most data intensive programs rely on.

Debuggers are pretty useful when working with stateful programs that grow beyond a size where you can keep the state in your head. When working in 100+kloc C++ OOP codebases I would be quit my job if there was no debugger. The solution I like to use in Julia is to avoid stateful programming and t…

[image] Orbots: Test driven development has gotten a lot of traction recently, but I find it can be too much and bloat out the already large codebase you have to maintain. You have to maintain tests as well. Quality over quantity for tests should be a focus. Tests are costly to maintain, but …

Even ignoring the technical benefit, I find that having a thorough test suite is very helpful in terms of peace of mind, as I don’t need to get paranoid that I’m potentially breaking everything when changing things.

Didn’t intend to derail the conversation towards a discussion of testing. Was trying to proselytize Repl based development and how you can get along fine without a debugger. If you like finding bugs or the peace of mind of testing, you’ll love poking at your well designed function in the Repl unti…

Thanks for the reply Petr. I like that this forum is so active! I may give it a go, mainly because I feel code written in Julia looks prettier and more intuitive than in Matlab (which what you meant I suppose). At the same time, I feel I may still be a bit early and would be taking a risk for my PhD…

How do you use debuggers?

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How do you use debuggers?

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