I’ve always thought that DDD was a surprisingly good debugger for its time.
It made program execution feel visible: stacks, data, and control flow were all there at once. You could really “see” what the program was doing.
At the same time, it’s clearly a product of a different era:
– single-process
– mostly synchronous code
– no real notion of concurrency or async
– dated UI and interaction model
Today we debug very different systems: multithreaded code, async runtimes, long-running services, distributed components.
Yet most debuggers still feel conceptually close to GDB + stepping, just wrapped in a nicer UI.
I’m curious how others think about this:
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