hmm still looking for like, a way to teach myself gdb/rr or have my darn hand held, because i'm a box of rocks about #rustlang debugging
@amphetamine I always use a debugger in every language.
If you're not using a debugger, that's only because you haven't found the right debugger yet.
@JordiGH go on...
@amphetamine Much to my surprise, the internet says that gdb doesn't work on Rust yet? I figured that if it worked for D (which it does for me), it works for everything.
What about this?
https://github.com/RustDT/RustDT/blob/latest/documentation/Features.md#debugging-functionality
Surely if Eclipse can use gdb for Rust, so can anything else?
@JordiGH there's a totally sweet gdb-based debugger called rr but first i need to understand gdb https://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/10/rreverse-debugging/
@amphetamine You're in luck, @tromey just joined Masto a few minutes ago, and he's a gdb contributor and Rust enthusiast. He might help.
@JordiGH awesome, i'll hassle him if https://beej.us/guide/bggdb/ doesn't do me
thanks!
@JordiGH @amphetamine
There are some decent gdb tutorials and GUIs. Most should be reasonably rust-savvy out of the box. Feel free to report problems to me, fixing the Rust debugging story is my current job.
@amphetamine you don't :3
@lucidiot fucking
i knew it XD
@amphetamine there's code you can't reason out?
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@amphetamine Have you tried CLion with the Rust plugin? It should work with GDB fine. https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2018/03/from-cpp-to-native-development-rust-and-fortran-plugins-in-clion
Debugging is one of the places where IDEs really shine.
alternatively, how do *you* debug your rust program when you can't println! your way out of it or just reason out the code because it's a large codebase?