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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by TheRoque on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:51AM (#46762922)
Maybe you can have a look at RadDbg [0], as I understand the project has been bought by Epic Games recently. The goal is to make a performant debugger, from what I understand its target audience is mostly game developers, but you can use it for other programs obviously. You can see a talk of the core developer and his vision here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_bK_WjuYY

Sadly it's windows only yet, but they have plans to port it to other platforms.

- [0]: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger

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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by mort96 on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:15AM (#46763078)
The readme talks about plans for Linux support, but I'm guessing that's no longer on the table after the Epic acquisition? Sweeney is the single most publicly anti-Linux CEO I'm aware of.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by nottorp on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:33AM (#46763175)
Do you expect an IAP peddler to support free software?
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by mort96 on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:36AM (#46763204)
Yes actually: plenty of companies don't care where their money comes from, they're happy as long as there's money. Unity, the other big ad- and IAP-peddling game engine company, has pretty good Linux support.

It's weird for a company to explicitly say, "if you use this one operating system you can go F yourself, we don't want your money". (Note: this is not the same as saying "we only officially support Windows at this time, sorry". There's seething hatred in Sweeney's words.)

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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by nottorp on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:22AM (#46763478)
I suppose Apple bribed him to support Macs. Who's going to bribe him to support Linux, RedHat? Canonical?
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by password4321 on Monday January 26, 2026 @06:42AM (#46764482)
> Do you expect an IAP peddler to support free software?

Valve does.

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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by mort96 on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:34AM (#46764885)
Valve doesn't own RAD though
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by hyperbolablabla on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:58AM (#46764152)
AFAIK, RAD was acquired by Epic before Ryan began working on the Linux port
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by mort96 on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:37AM (#46764898)
It usually takes some time for an acquisition to result in significant cultural shift in the acquired company, but it always happens in the end.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by rfleury on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:09AM (#46781878)
Nothing has changed about the project’s design, intentions, or goals in the 5 years since the acquisition. This is just ideological.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by rfleury on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:08AM (#46781859)
It was acquired before I even joined the company.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by arlefreak on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:41AM (#46767853)
https://x.com/rfleury/status/1987771794263363859?s=20 You can see the progress in the GitHub repo, seems like Linux support is the next big feature being worked on
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by rfleury on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @11:08AM (#46781847)
The repository was first open sourced 2 years after the acquisition. Nothing has changed about the project’s goals. We are working on the Linux port now. It’s currently our top priority.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by mort96 on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:56AM (#46796155)
I'm happy Epic hasn't influenced your goals yet. It's only a matter of time.
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Re:DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent... by rfleury on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:22PM (#46838601)
Give the ideology a rest. Nothing will change.
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