Look into DAP support.

[epasveer]

From a Reddit user:

I think a rewrite of this project using the DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) as the interface between the GUI and the debugger could be industry changing.

The DAP is pretty meh at the moment since it was designed with the needs of web debugging in mind and not native debugging. Thus much that you'd expect from gdb/lldb based debuggers is missing (e.g. the command interpreter support) and the maintainers aren't interested in feature requests without example implementations.

Taking this exact project and gutting the MI components and using only the DAP and then extending the DAP protocol to support the features missing here could make this the de facto industry standard debugging experience beyond even gdb/c++.

Also, where's the strong Linux coupling? Qt + gdb-mi are both platform agnostic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/wjoi6b/seer_a_new_gui_frontend_to_gdbmi_updated_v18/

[epasveer]

Seems like the latest gdb supports DAP. Need to check into this.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GDB-Debug-Adapter-Protocol#:~:text=With%20the%20latest%20GDB%20development%20code%20the%20support,that%20output%20can%20be%20encapsulated%20by%20the%20protocol.

[epasveer]

I'm going to close this task. I don't think DAP is in my future any time soon.

DAP seems to be a "mi" alternative. "mi" being the 'api' that Seer and other frontends use to talk to gdb. DAP seems to be JSON based. "mi" is more Python dictionaries/lists/sets.

Also, even though the link says it's ready in the latest gdb, it isn't. Maybe it's there in Window's version of gdb.

So, for now, I'll close this task.

[lanza]

Any thoughts on this topic? gdb now supports the DAP (along with many other debuggers).

[epasveer]

I've re-opened this task. For my reference, he's gdb's info on DAP support.

https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/Debugger-Adapter-Protocol.html

I'll take a look at it when I can.

[epasveer]

Another link for me to look into.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/11hhjn9/gnu_debugger_gdb_adds_support_for_microsofts/