if you were to create a new programming language, what kind of new/unknown debugging methods would you have for it?
New methods of debugging
Sebastian Ramirez
Nicholas Nguyen
make the languega tell you what's wrong and how to fix it!
Jordan Kelly
it might be possible to some extent if something like en.m.wikipedia.org
Brayden Nelson
Probably just Common Lisp's debug methods together with checkpointing. This doesn't really require a new language though.
Jonathan Gonzalez
The field of debugging is complete. I can't imagine any new kind of print statement that one might need. Every existing language supports comprehensive string and number printing. More modern languages support printing of arbitrary data types, including arrays and structures. I've seen some languages that will even print out function definitions. Everything a person could need printed can already be printed, there is nothing new to add.
Eli Cook
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Evan Thompson
This, when a Common Lisp program crashes you are dropped right into the debugger. You can fix the source code, re-compile it and have your program running right at the point where it crashed. Not to mention that the debugger is running in Lisp as well, so you use the same language for debugging as for writing the code.
Landon Brooks
Don't forget *debugger-hook*.
Kevin Price
I'd provide a graphical map of all instantiated objects that could be navigated.
Charles Cook
Most IDEs provide both call and type hierarchy tree views.
Jose Martin
Rewind/step-back.
Evan Jackson
Reverse execution is already a thing.
sourceware.org
Brayden Lewis
Bug driven development.
I would say more but I know this shithole is full of LARPers who'll pretend they came up with the idea first.
Logan Johnson
That's just threat modeling.
Lincoln Clark
Even if you're right, you're wrong for not explaining your point.
Brandon Ramirez
Adorable.
Camden Perry
I don't want a tree or stack, I want a big diagram, where each object is a circle that is bigger depending on the memory taken up by that object and that I can zoom into to see the values of members as well as observe while the program is running.
Jason Carter
You are probably thinking of bug chasing.
I'm talking about full on bug driven development. All I need is a good cover and I'm ready for that O'Reilly money.
Camden Young
If that's different than the existing BDD, you might need an original name too
What are the edges of the graph representing?
Gabriel Jones
you want fast compile times for quickly testing changes
youtube.com
Anthony Campbell
I like to imagine this one guy responds to every incorrect post he sees with "Wrong" like this
Gabriel Jenkins
How do you debug a compiled language though?
Cameron Carter
Here's another example for a place for improvement: visualization.
being able to visualize geometry and data structures would be very useful.
making it easy to do with the language will help a lot.
Carson White
The compiler can leave debugging symbols in the binary. It bloats the file size a little, but it's generally negligible and the benefit of being able to debug on the user-end is worth it. In GCC or clang for example you have to pass the '-g' flag to the compiler.