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Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

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Post by jcalabro »

Hi! I've been building a debugger on my nights and weekends because it's fun, and I personally need a better debugger for my work. GDB and LLDB pain me greatly; we can and will do better!

As explained in the README, it's still very early-days and it's not ready for use yet, but check back often because it's improving all the time!

Check out https://calabro.io/uscope for a more detailed explanation.

Thanks for taking a look!

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Post by adolph »

To clarify “from scratch” as in from basic materials and not “in scratch” as in the MIT graphical programming g system[0]. It appears to be written in Zig[1], which I find interesting for analysis.

0. https://scratch.mit.edu/

1. https://github.com/jcalabro/uscope

Re: Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

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Post by TZubiri »

adolph wrote: post #2

To clarify “from scratch” as in from basic materials and not “in scratch” as in the MIT graphical programming g system[0]. It appears to be written in Zig[1], which I find interesting for analysis. 0. https://scratch.mit.edu/ 1. https://github.com/jcalabro/uscope

lol, I think no one expected a linux debugger to be written in the visual programming language for kids.

Re: Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch

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Post by quotemstr »

It's not clear to me why we'd need a new debugger instead of GDB enhancements. GDB has an extensible, modern C++ codebase with literal decades of hard earned knowledge baked into it.

How are we better off rewriting it, especially if the rewrite isn't memory safe?

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Post by ziddoap »

quotemstr wrote: post #6

It's not clear to me why we'd need a new debugger instead of GDB enhancements. GDB has an extensible, modern C++ codebase with literal decades of hard earned knowledge baked into it. How are we better off rewriting it, especially if the rewrite isn't memory safe?

Consider this part of the post:

>I've been building a debugger on my nights and weeks because it's fun

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