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…

Hi All, I am a novice Julia developer. I have 2 projects actively been developed : A PDF parser Sample code solution for AI a modern approach I definitely need a debugger for 1. Without single stepping debugging a parser is almost impossible. In a handwritten parser with direct and indirect recu…

[image] tamasgal: I use them [debuggers] when they feel comfortable/natural to use, i.e. are easily accessible. While I agree that debuggers are not absolutely necessary, they certainly can be quite useful. I spent about 8 years coding mainly in C++ (and some Fortran) and then the last two y…

Minor but kind of related improvement in 0.6: after a stack trace, number + Ctrl-Q in the REPL takes you to the right function. Together with Revise.jl , and #265 fixed , I experienced large increases in productivity when debugging (so now I generate more subtle and insidious bugs).

Is there any timelines when the debugger will support 0.6 or 0.7? As much we think we are 100% sure of the system we build there is one thing or the other in the wild that proves our limitation of knowledge. So debugger definitely helps than introducing debug prints all over the place and then remo…

I have seen some comments to the effect that work on updating the debugger is ‘ongoing’, but it’s not so easy to see what’s going on. https://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl doesn’t show any activity, though sometimes people work on ‘private branches’. My uneducated, ill-informed guess is that the updat…

The work on the new version of ASTInterpreter is in GitHub - JuliaDebug/ASTInterpreter2.jl: Re-write of ASTInterpreter for julia 0.6+ . It mostly works, but there’s a few things to take care of before I formally announce it. It doesn’t have breakingpointing, which is a pretty difficult feature to imp…

In the last 7 months, I’ve been working on a project where Julia is not involved. Now I’m back to Julia, realizing that a lot has happened. At the time when I left, v0.6 was just rolled out. Now it is fully-fledged and bundled with JuliaPro, which is really nice. What I care most is the debugger si…

If you are a developer and your daily life is coding and writing robust codes to be reused, yes you might really need to have a very good mental model of what is going on, and debugger is not needed. TL;DR: as a scientific researcher who writes code just sometimes and throws them away in most cases…

[image] deltakam: Or, it could be that I just belong to a community that Julia does not need to care… They developers do care about people who want debuggers, and it is said to be in the works. The constraint is developer time, not perceived/assumed lack of need for a debugger. See [i…

How do you use debuggers?

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To back up on @DNF reply, see also this comment.

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How do you use debuggers?

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