# Julia debugging is extremely slow

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-debugging-is-extremely-slow/135839>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** debug\
**Created:** [February 25, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-debugging-is-extremely-slow/135839 "2026-02-25T13:25:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-debugging-is-extremely-slow/135839/12 "2026-02-26T07:12:53Z")

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Using a paid tool completely runs against the ideological reasons for why I want to work in Julia in the first place. So if I cannot find any other viable way to use Julia then I will likely stay out of Julia. However I will get the 7 day trial and see what the experience is like.

I just tried flexible Julia and while it was able to pass the troublesome line without issue, it unfortunately crashes on a later line. However the debugger is missing a debugging console and the error message it returns when crashing is not really very useful.  
So while it seems promising it also doesn’t seem to have all the options I need in order to use it for general Julia debugging.

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