Show HN: CodeTracer – A new time-traveling debugger implemented in Nim and Rust
Published on: 2025-06-30 16:30:10
Tip You can place the downloaded app in a location of your choosing (e.g., the Applications folder on macOS or ~/.local/share/applications on Linux). When you launch CodeTracer for the first time, it will prompt you to complete the remaining installation steps, such as adding the command-line utilities to your PATH.
Caution Upon the first launch, macOS users will see the error message "CodeTracer is damaged and can't be opened". To resolve this problem, please execute the command xattr -c . We expect this inconvenience will be remedied soon through our enrollment in the Apple Developer program that will ensure CodeTracer is properly signed and whitelisted by Apple. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253714860?sortBy=rank for more details.
Introduction
CodeTracer is a user-friendly time-traveling debugger designed to support a wide range of programming languages.
It records the execution of a program into a sharable self-contained trace file. You can l
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