Quoting David Schleef <ds schleef.org>:
> Since no current developer has picked it up in several
years, it
> seems reasonable that there isn't a need for it in the
current
> developer community. So it will likely be a new
developer, if any,
> that starts working on it.
>
My experience is that developers heavily underestimate the
benefit of
debugging tools. Most people just use what there is, because
everyone
else uses it, too. Only when they've seen working debugging
tools do
they realize how nice they are. Were it not for some people
implementing those tools, we would still be hunting invalid
reads and
writes with printf because everybody else does it this way,
so it must
be good enough.
I can tell you from my experience with rewriting the
pipeline parser,
implementing caps_to/from_string and reworking the debugging
system,
that people only believe in debugging tools when they see
them work.
Cheers,
Benjamin
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