Published on: 2025-07-24 07:58:03
A debugger for Linux. Partially inspired by RemedyBG. Mom, can we have RAD Debugger on Linux? No, we have a debugger at home. Debugger at home: Properties: Fast. TUI. Not based on gdb or lldb, implemented mostly from scratch. Works on large executables. (Tested mostly on 2.5 GB ClickHouse.) What we mean by "fast": Operations that can be instantaneous should be instantaneous. I.e. snappy UI, no random freezes, no long waits. (Known exception: if the program has >~2k threads things become
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This series has been expanded into a book! It covers many more topics in much greater detail. You can now pre-order Building a Debugger. Debuggers are one of the most valuable tools in any developer’s kit. However, although these tools are in such widespread use, there aren’t a lot of resources which tell you how they work and how to write one, especially when compared to other toolchain technologies like compilers. In this post series we’ll learn what makes debuggers tick and write one for deb
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A Debugger is a REPL is a Debugger I love debuggers! The last time I used a debugger seriously was in 2017 or so, when I was still coding in Kotlin. I’ve since switched to working with native code, and, sadly gdb and lldb are of almost no help for me. This is because they are mere “debuggers”, but what I need is a REPL, and a debugger, all in one. In this article I show a more productive way to use debuggers as REPLS. The trick boils down to two IntelliJ IDEA features, Run to Cursor and Quick
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