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Re:What a good debugger can do by jayd16 on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:55PM (#35099186)
Which of these can't visual studio or intellij do?
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Re:What a good debugger can do by pjmlp on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:07PM (#35099360)
hot code reload is very constrained in what can be changed.

It is great that it exists, but it isn't Smalltalk where at any moment the debugger can come up, you can change the world and hit continue without any issues, with all live instances updated to the latest set of changes.

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Re:What a good debugger can do by greglaw99 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @09:57AM (#35108728)
IntelliJ can do time travel if you install the plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14767-time-travel-debug...
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