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0 pointsorwin5y ago0 comments

REPL with hot-loading is better than print debugging, especially if you work with graphics, but also if you do weird stuff in the memory space than make strings unreadable for human beings.

That said, gdb is probably in the same space as git is: hard to fully use, but the best in its own space.

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_y5hn5y ago

I envy your use cases, but it's 25 years since I used debuggers. I just didn't have the use case.

With Haskell being a tough nut, maybe it could help though. So may as well try it.

I found git trivial to start using immediately, and almost possible to understand from first principles (ie. almost like versioned subdirs improved). It's a bit more involved, but with right online content, one starts to catch on (leaving magical thinking).

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_y5hn5y ago

I envy your use cases, but it's 25 years since I used debuggers. I just didn't have the use case.

With Haskell being a tough nut, maybe it could help though. So may as well try it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse