Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

Re:Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming lan... by kjksf on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @04:47PM (#21996154)

Advice from a fellow dev: add a crash handler and set it up for an automatic submission of crash reports (symbolicated callstacks of all threads) via HTTP POST to a server.

Better yet, turn it into something that others can use easily by configuring things like the server to which send the reports.

I did this for SumatraPDF (https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/blob/master/s...) and now I think it's a must for writing desktop software that runs on other people's machines.

A shockingly low number of people report crash reports.

I know because I show a message box telling them to submit a bug report for a crash. I get plenty of crashes but no bug reports.

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Re:Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming lan... by krageon on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:48AM (#22000394)

From a privacy perspective this is a problematic stance, though it is appreciated that you outline that it does this here.

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Re:Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming lan... by davedx on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:03AM (#21999116)

My custom crash dumps just go direct to email via gmail smtp. No need to build a server API :)

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Re:Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming lan... by speps on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:32PM (#21996481)

Crash dumps are a GDPR nightmare though, be careful.

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Re:Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming lan... by sus_007 on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:38AM (#22002030)

I can't thank you enough for making SumatraPDF. Great job.

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