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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by ryanianian on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:21AM (#18046065)
"Can use" is different from "can use productively." Technically if it's compiled to C/C++ you can use gdb/lldb etc, BUT the compiled version may be so drastically different from the input that it's effectively useless to track down logic errors in the original.
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by loup-vaillant on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:47PM (#18047378)
C has this nice preprocessor directive that indicate the actual source code:

   #line 42 "actual_source.lang"
Subsequent tools like gdb/lldb pick up on that, and point to your source code instead of the intermediate C. So you don't care that the C code is wildly different from your own, the tools can still point to to the right place.

Sounds pretty productive to me.

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