Chez Scheme is now free

Re:Chez Scheme is now free by sklogic on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @06:51AM (#11579276)

> The only way they debug the massive Scheme part is using print statements.

Why would you need anything else for debugging?!?

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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by piyush_soni on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:27AM (#11580693)

See I'm so naive I don't even know if this is sarcasm. :/

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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by sklogic on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:29AM (#11580718)

I'm 100% serious. Interactive debugging is hugely overrated. I am not aware of a debugging technique better than logging + contracts + asserts.

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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by piyush_soni on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:28AM (#11581243)

For one, that forces you to change the code and recompile all the time. And some projects have huge recompile times.

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Re:Chez Scheme is now free by sklogic on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:47AM (#11581473)

And compiling in a debug mode also results in huge recompile times. Is it such a problem?

There is no big difference between building with contracts and logs on (log level is selected dynamically, no need to recompile) and building with debug symbols/suppressed optimisations.

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