Re:Debuggers Suck
by KenoFischer on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:10PM
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Another testimonial from me. I basically refuse to do any debugging on systems that rr doesn't run on unless there's a very good reason. I use rr extensively whenever there's a bug in Julia and I would singlehandedly credit it with a measurable increase in system stability due to it catching bugs we'd never have gotten otherwise. roc is one of the few people with both the vision and persistence to really improve the debugging experience.
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What's the best way to use rr to debug Julia code atm? Or are you talking about debugging the actual language code in C?
Re:Debuggers Suck
by KenoFischer on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:00AM
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Yes, the latter (mostly for various weird corner cases). Back in the Gallium.jl days we could actually debug the recorded julia code, but we haven't regained that capability yet.