Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
by matsemann on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:05PM
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Never heard of that functionality, but googling brings up this https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/08/jump-to-any-line-whi...
> if you want to jump to a particular line and set an execution point there, without executing the preceding code
Re:Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development
by lostmsu on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:32PM
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> I remember being able to drag the "current line" pointer forwards or backwards in languages like C, C++, and C# in maybe 2003
This is because Visual Studio debugger was always state of the art.
One thing I wish Java debuggers supported was the ability to move the instruction pointer to a different line, as has been possible in other debuggers for ages. Is it a JVM limitation maybe? I remember being able to drag the "current line" pointer forwards or backwards in languages like C, C++, and C# in maybe 2003. I wish I could do this with Java; dropping the whole frame is useful but this feature lets you do a lot more, like break out of a loop or skip a block of code you _just_ realized shouldn't execute.