Re:Julia 1.0
by ScottPJones on Friday August 10, 2018 @07:52PM
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As someone who's spent decades programming in C/C++, and diving into assembly code (and writing a fair share when the compiler just couldn't do what I needed), I love being able to directly inspect the output code at many levels, including all the way down to "bare metal".
Yes, there's a lot of work to be done in the area of debuggers for Julia, but there are already useful debugging tools (like Rebugger) that I haven't seen for any other language.
To be clear, I don't remember needing to do this as a regular user. As an occasional compiler hacker it's been quite nice though.