Mini Debugger

[markgarrigan]

Contributing guidelines

• I have read CONTRIBUTING.md
• I have read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Module(s)

mini

Description

Are there any plans to have a debug ui module?

Thanks!

[echasnovski]

No, not really. I personally don't use it at all right now and am not really a fan of introducing functionality which should follow yet another external specification (DAP).

Let's have this issue on for now, but there really are very small chances of this happening.

[matu3ba]

Implementing DAP is complex and a lua wrapper around :help terminal-debug offers limited functionality; the alternative approach somewhat similar to :h terminal-debug is https://github.com/sakhnik/nvim-gdb

As of now, from what I know of the only (sane/lua) programming API to debugger is described here https://arcan-fe.com/2024/09/16/a-spreadsheet-and-a-debugger-walks-into-a-shell/.

More desparate in yet other languages would be https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg or one of the (non)graphical debuggers typically used/provided by on each OS or vendor.