Go has added Valgrind support

Re:Go has added Valgrind support by pbd on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @07:58AM (#45345727)

Nothing says 'mature ecosystem' like finally getting debugging tools that C developers have had since the Clinton administration. Next up: maybe Go will discover gdb integration and we can debug like it's 1999.

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by worksonmine on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:16AM (#45345932)

> Next up: maybe Go will discover gdb integration and we can debug like it's 1999

That's already possible and documented[1]. I don't understand if you're sarcastic though, what's wrong with GDB? I use it in vim :termdebug and I wish all languages had native support for it.

[1]: https://go.dev/doc/gdb

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by preisschild on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:14AM (#45345907)

And yet it's mature enough to be used for highly critical software such as Kubernetes...

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by giancarlostoro on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:41AM (#45346217)

Good enough to be used by every major cloud provider, every time you download Google Chrome, and Android SDKs you pull from a standard library Go based HTTP server.

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by frollogaston on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:22AM (#45348353)

How do you know the Chrome downloads server specifically is written in Go?

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by c2xlZXB5Cg1 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:00PM (#45348880)

https://go.dev/talks/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

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Re:Go has added Valgrind support by alias_neo on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @08:24AM (#45346038)

C is also half a century old. Perhaps Valgrind wasn't a high priority because the newer language also has newer tools?

Nothing wrong with adding tried and tested tools later if people want them.

Did you have a need for Valgrind in Go that wasn't served by any other tools until now?

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