VS Code debugger crashes for "Hello World"

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Hello,
I understand that the Julia debugging experience in VS Code is still under development, but I was never able to get the debugger to work even for the “Hello World” script set as the example on VS Code’s page. When I follow the example here, I create the file

print("Hello!")

and hit F5 without setting a breakpoint, the result is

Activating project at `~/.julia/environments/v1.11`
Hello!┌ Error: Some Julia code in the VS Code extension crashed
└ @ VSCodeDebugger ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/error_handler.jl:15
ERROR: type Nothing has no field frame
Stacktrace:
  *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

If I set a breakpoint in the only line of code and hit F5, the result is

Activating project at `~/.julia/environments/v1.11`
┌ Error: Some Julia code in the VS Code extension crashed
└ @ VSCodeDebugger ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/error_handler.jl:15
ERROR: TypeError: non-boolean (Missing) used in boolean context
Stacktrace:
 [1] evaluate_request(debug_session::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DebugSession, params::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.EvaluateArguments)
   @ VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/packages/DebugAdapter/src/debugger_requests.jl:923
 [2] (::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.var"#119#148"{VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DebugSession})(params::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.EvaluateArguments)
   @ VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/packages/DebugAdapter/src/packagedef.jl:82
 [3] dispatch_msg(x::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DAPRPC.DAPEndpoint{Base.PipeEndpoint, Base.PipeEndpoint}, dispatcher::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DAPRPC.MsgDispatcher, msg::Dict{String, Any})
   @ VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DAPRPC ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/packages/DebugAdapter/src/DAPRPC/typed.jl:89
 [4] (::VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.var"#132#161"{Dict{String, Any}, VSCodeDebugger.var"#3#4"{String}, VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DAPRPC.MsgDispatcher, VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter.DAPRPC.DAPEndpoint{Base.PipeEndpoint, Base.PipeEndpoint}})()
   @ VSCodeDebugger.DebugAdapter ~/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/packages/DebugAdapter/src/packagedef.jl:98

 *  The terminal process "julia '--color=yes', '--startup-file=no', '--history-file=no', '/Users/caetano/.vscode/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.129.1/scripts/debugger/run_debugger.jl', '/var/folders/xl/g_zr4nmn7hs7j9r988d9_fj80000gn/T/vsc-jl-dbg-a82cfb2e-a940-48eb-9c2f-52fe34c5f13c', '/var/folders/xl/g_zr4nmn7hs7j9r988d9_fj80000gn/T/vsc-jl-dbg-d0b95e9c-3876-4b99-a727-36bf02264bfb', '/var/folders/xl/g_zr4nmn7hs7j9r988d9_fj80000gn/T/vsc-jl-cr-165b3af1-009d-4724-9f63-bf419dd458b7'" terminated with exit code: 1. 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

This has always been the behavior since the first time I tried the Julia debugger in VS Code. I created an issue on GitHub a couple of years ago but never got a reply (it’s still open). I’m on MacOS Sonoma (14.7.2 (23H311)) using the latest version of VS Code (see below), Julia version 1.11.2, and this example was made with the pre-release of julialang.language-julia Version 1.129.1 Last Updated 2024-12-21, 08:54:29. However, note that the behavior is the same with the current release version 1.127.2.

Version: 1.96.2 (Universal)
Commit: fabdb6a30b49f79a7aba0f2ad9df9b399473380f
Date: 2024-12-19T10:22:47.216Z
Electron: 32.2.6
ElectronBuildId: 10629634
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

I’ll happily provide more information if it helps solve the issue.

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Let’s continue the conversation over at Debugger crashes when debugger is launched · Issue #3308 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub, I’m about to follow up there with some requests for more help.

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After looking into the issue over on GitHub, David found the origin of the error:

Ok, I think what is happening here is that the Ruby debug adapter is incorrectly sending an evaluate request to the Julia debug session. Could you try if this error still occurs if you simply disable that extension?

I disabled the extension VSCode rdbg Ruby Debugger and now the error is gone. Thank you very much, David. Much appreciated :slight_smile:

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