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Where can I find a debugger with a GUI for Linux? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 hours ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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I'm currently developing on Windows mainly, but due to the end of life of Windows 10, I might switch my primary OS to Linux instead. However, despite Linux being called "developer friendly" I always preferred the tools available under Windows save for the command line shell of Linux.

My main gripes with Linux development is with the debuggers. On Windows, I have RemedyBG, a pretty good debugger with an easy to use GUI. On Linux, all I have is either GDB or LLDB, and a command line so far.

I looked into some of the "more mainstream" GUI options for Linux, all of them were just a separate tab for the same command line debugger in a text editor.

Please note that I'm the sole developer of my projects on the side of a full time job, so I don't have 1 month to spare to learn the in and outs of GDB, which in the days of useless AI slop articles littering the internet, might be even 1.5-2 months. I have a modern PC, any performance gains from not having a well-optimized GUI is negligible. No, I don't care about scripts. And no, unless I'm actually writing the code, the mouse is faster, not slower.

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[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Any modern IDE for any language has a built-in debugger UI. Mostly good one.

[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not built-in. It uses gdb or lldb or another standalone debugger.

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

UI. UI is built-in.