Re:Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger imple...
by cxie on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:19AM
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The planned RR recordings integration is what I'm most excited about though. Having this capability for systems languages like Rust and C++ would be transformative for complex debugging scenarios where you're often forced to restart debugging sessions from scratch after stepping past a crucial point.
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Re:Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger imple...
by Apofis on Thursday March 06, 2025 @11:52AM
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This happens all the time and is super irksome. Being able to step backwards as well as forwards is super cool. Also, being able to do that with a loop using a slider is cool.
Re:Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger imple...
by cxie on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:27PM
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I need a VSCode extension for this. But alas, it's just sitting in their roadmap...
Typical. Guess I'll have to roll up my sleeves and build one myself. Not like I have enough on my plate already. At least their trace files are in an open format, so it shouldn't be impossible to hook into the VS Code debugging API.
Re:Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger imple...
by alehander42 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:44PM
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We'd love additional contributors! We also have some more detailed plans for such an extension. If you're interested in chatting about it, you can join our discord[1] (or we can expand here/in a github issue as well)
Re:Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger imple...
by alehander42 on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:08PM
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the support for system languages (the rr integration "backend") is currently closed source.
It's not ready yet, and it might be proprietary: it would be great if we can open source it, if we find a sustainable business model for that