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Re:A Julia Interpreter and Debugger by vanderZwan on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:59PM (#19456608)
I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't so much "brittle" as that Julia internals were too much of a moving target before reaching 1.0 to make it worth the effort of keeping it working between releases.
Re:A Julia Interpreter and Debugger by StefanKarpinski on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:59PM (#19457259)
It was a bit of both but by far the bigger issue was that compilers emit terrible debug info. It's barely good enough to debug C/C++ code and for Julia code it was impossible to reliably get values of local variables and set breakpoints.