Re: [Caml-list] Do you use a debugger with OCaml? If not, why not?

[Xavier Van de Woestyne <xavier.vdw@gmail.com>]

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I started implementing a small debugger using PPX. Actually the tool
provide only "logs" but if I have more time,
I will write more features (like loop/recursion log/breakpoint, watch etc).

https://github.com/xvw/ppx_debugger

The code was writted fast, It'll open to improvement.

2015-11-26 11:59 GMT+01:00 Tom Ridge <tom.j.ridge+list@googlemail.com>:

> I haven't used oqamldebug - perhaps it should be more widely publicized?
> Perhaps linked to from the ocamldebug doc?
>
> That said, println is my tool of choice, although I hear good things about
> printf :)
>
> I think that, because of lack of resources, we probably have to accept
> that, as far as debuggers and IDEs are concerned, we are going to be stuck
> where we are for the forseeable future (emacs+speedbar in my case).
>
> Recently I have been programming in scala. It is an interesting language.
> I wouldn't say it is better than OCaml, but the tooling and IDE support is
> much better (and the libraries... wow!), and as a consequence the
> programming experience is more enjoyable (for me personally, YMMV). Not
> having to write a make file is already a big win.
>
>
> On 26 November 2015 at 09:14, Leonardo Laguna Ruiz <modlfo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I use oqamldebug. In general works very well.
>>
>> Ocamldebug is good but I agree that the UI needs improvements. When I was
>> programming F# I practically never used print debugging since the debugger
>> was very accessible and installing custom printers for your data structures
>> was trivial.
>>
>> Leonardo
>>
>>
>> On 2015-11-25 16:55, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
>>
>>> Le mercredi, 25 novembre 2015 à 12:49, John Whitington a écrit :
>>>
>>>> If not a debugger, why not?
>>>>
>>> For UI reasons.
>>>
>>> When I was doing ios work you could just set a break point in the ide by
>>> clicking in the margin, hit the run button and you'd simply stop there and
>>> be able to inspect the state of your program. It was quick and easy so I
>>> would use it — note however that sometimes it was easier to get exactly
>>> what you wanted through a printf statement.
>>>
>>> Lacking such a trivial setup, printf is quicker.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
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