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Re:Debuggers Suck by extrapickles on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:19AM (#21645465)
Visual Studio lets you do some of this in a clunky way with ‘Edit and continue’, where you can edit code after a breakpoint in the same method. I believe most browser JS debuggers let you edit the JavaScript, though it can be quite buggy.
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Re:Debuggers Suck by peheje on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:25AM (#21645990)
What is clunky about it? It even allows you to drag back the current program pointer to a previous line in your program, change the code and run the section.

One problem I found was it doesn't work with generic methods though, not sure if MS is working on making that work. To me "Edit and continue" is a great tool.

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Re:Debuggers Suck by 72deluxe on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:23AM (#21646442)
Yes I sorely miss this in xcode. If it's in there and I am unaware of it, please sombody let me know!

I am writing C++ in both IDEs and VS is far more useful to me.

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Re:Debuggers Suck by mantap on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:43AM (#21648197)
Xcode used to have this back in the day, it was called "Fix and Continue". It was dropped at some point around Xcode 4. RIP.
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Re:Debuggers Suck by 72deluxe on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:07PM (#21650312)
Thanks for the info. It just cements my frustration with Xcode.
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