No, I’m not talking about those half-baked frontends for GDB, that at best only half exposes stuff, and at worst gives you a little tab to type your GDB commands into.

No, I don’t care about 0.0000001% lost performance.

No, I don’t care about macros.

No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.

No, I don’t want to hear your anecdote about how much you use it and how fast can it be once you type 10000 wpm.

No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.

UPDATE: I wish you a very happy “year of the Linux desktop”! Never change Linux “fandom”, never change! “Why are they still using Windows?” Because of elitist shit like this. You wanted to keep “nice little friend circle without the normies”, you got what you wished for. No one wants to use a crusty TUIs with Street Fighter combo like key commands for everything after all the GUIs they used. And the saddest part is that Linux applications often have better GUI than Windows alternatives, but dev tools suffer from the elitist circlejerk of “trust me bro, I use scripts for everything, it made my life easier” the most.

UPDATE2: I think I’ll just take GDB’s core components, then put a GUI onto it. If I’ll only use it on a select number of systems, I probably can pull it off.

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    No, I don’t want to spend weeks to learn GDB inside-out, so I don’t have to search online for 15-30 minutes on an AI infested internet every time I want to use it, for each feature I’m using it for that day.

    1. Search “gdb cheatsheet” and bookmark it. This looks good, but you have plenty of choices. When you find one you like, you probably almost never have to go to the internet again.
    2. Unfortunately, you can’t avoid a search engine while programming; you’re not going to get very far. All you can do is develop your search skills to avoid the slop.
    3. If you’re using a statically typed language (C, C++, Rust, etc.) already, basic GDB is comparatively simple. For these languages, not knowing GDB is a bit like an electrician not knowing how to use a multimeter; it’s a matter of necessity rather than “gatekeeping”.

    No, I don’t want to gatekeep Linux from “normies”, by making it as user-unfriendly as possible, so I can keep the Linux community a frat club for slur saying techbros.

    For your sake, I must emphasize that insulting the people you want help from is not an effective tactic for obtaining help. There are certainly jerks in the broader Linux community, but effectively accusing anyone in this community unable to give you exactly what you want of being a “slur saying techbro” (unless I misunderstand you) is, no offense, an incredibly entitled view to have.

    If you wish to make valuable use of internet forums, I would request you take heed of this: www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

    Anyhow, I wish you luck in your endeavors.