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Re:A Julia Interpreter and Debugger by eigenspace on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:52PM (#19457198)
Something like this is currently being attempted with MagneticReadHead.jl[1] which also just saw its first beta release. It's a pretty cool tool, using Cassette to essentially do an extra compiler pass, descending into code from other modules and inject the appropriate debugging tools.

[1] https://github.com/oxinabox/MagneticReadHead.jl

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Re:A Julia Interpreter and Debugger by StefanKarpinski on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:58PM (#19457249)
MagneticReadHead is a bit different than what I think your parent post was asking about—that's more what Gallium was. The breakdown of approach is:

1. Gallium was a traditional gdb/lldb-style debugger

2. Debugger.jl is a pure interpreting debugger

3. MagneticReadHead works by compiling a modified version of the code you want to debug that is instrumented to add debugging hooks (this is different from how gdb/lldb work).

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Re:A Julia Interpreter and Debugger by eigenspace on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:08PM (#19457336)
Oh I misread the parent. My bad.
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