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by nialo 3661 days ago
I haven't tried this, but https://github.com/ketchupsalt/debugger might be of interest to you.

More generally, it's not actually sandboxed inside a web browser, you can interact with system through REST-ish API as well. see https://starfighter.readme.io/docs/retrieve-device-status for some documentation on that. It's obviously pretty inconvenient to get a full debugger type experience that way, but I don't really see how they could make it less sandboxed, given the constraint that the authoritative copy of everything must run on their servers for security.

I do wish all the commands gave some sort of feedback, load in particular is super frustrating that way.
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gue5t 3661 days ago
This line seems like a bug to me (assigning the int 16 to a variable that should be of an enumerated type {I8, I16, I32, S, R}, though I don't know if Go has those):

https://github.com/ketchupsalt/debugger/blob/master/commandl...

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tptacek 3661 days ago
There are probably a zillion little bugs in that thing (I haven't used it in months) but if people really want it to work, I'm probably less than 4 concerted hours from making it workable.
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tptacek 3661 days ago
Which "load" command? What's the feedback you're looking for?

Did you write a C program, click the compile button, and now want to run it? Just type "run".

There's an in-game reason why we break out the flash/load/exec commands the way we do, but "run" does all the fiddly steps.

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nialo 3661 days ago
I want typing "load foo.cg" and hitting enter in the debugger to print _something_, almost anything. Ideally it would print different things depending on whether foo.cg actually exists and is a valid file to try to load or not. Just some sort of feedback indicating that the command actually did something would be great.

I like the different load/flash/vmload/vmexec commands, I've certainly needed to stop at points in the middle to inspect the debugger state.

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tptacek 3661 days ago
Oh.

Yep, like "compile", that command is vestigial (the source editor used to live in a tab, and, ironically, the file saving stuff made more sense that way, driven from commands on the CLI).

Yep, I can make "load" do that. Give me a few hours, though! It's an easy task, but I'm tethered through my iPhone right now.

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nialo 3661 days ago
I personally am in no rush for this, all my discretionary coding time is currently going to a work sample for an opportunity Starfighter found me at the moment.
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