It has probably already been considered, but the Crystal Interpreter opens up some unique opportunities for IDE debugging even though it already ships with an interactive shell. I’ve been considering possible approaches to this, and I landed on an embedded TCP server in the interpreter that respond…

Hah. I’m not sure how easy it would be to do, but interfacing with the REPL via STDIN might be better/possible. I’m just not sure how.

I consider the main issue is: the interpreter is quite originality, in fact, except try some little snippets in REPL, use debugger in a project almost always not work because interpreter bugs, unless a hello world project, most of them seem like quite hard to fix according to the asterite. so, the …

[image] zw963: I consider the main issue is: the interpreter is quite originality, in fact, except try some little snippets in REPL, use debugger in a project almost always not work because interpreter bugs Hm, I haven’t noticed interpreter bugs so far, but a DAP server would be downstream fr…

I wanted to do this but I didn’t have time. I think it’s an excellent idea an the way to go with this.

I second this idea. When I was working on MT, and the interpreter wasn’t started, I wanted a dedicated thread for introspecting the running application. I would not wait for the interpreter “to be ready” to start this. Having this would help to discover bugs in the interpreter and give the interpre…

[image] asterite: I wanted to do this but I didn’t have time. I think it’s an excellent idea an the way to go with this. [image] bcardiff: I would not wait for the interpreter “to be ready” to start this. Having this would help to discover bugs in the interpreter and give the interpreter …

[image] zw963: long time no see, do you busy work on some big feature? e.g. Incremental compilation exploration , or somethings else? I’m not doing any open source at the moment. And it’s likely to stay that way for a looong time.

Idea/Proposal: Embedding a DAP server into the Crystal Interpreter

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long time no see, do you busy work on some big feature? e.g. Incremental compilation exploration, or somethings else?

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