[pjmlp]

Time travel to the UNIX world of early X Windows days.

Now picture XEmacs and Emacs, running gdb as subprocess, with a little pointed finger showing the current line and a stop sign for breakpoints.

The lower buffer shows the usual gdb repl and output.

[gumby]

Time travel to the late 70s and use the lisp machine debugger.

I always felt the drive towards mouse-driven tools in the PARC world (InterLisp/SmallTalk/CedarMesa) was actually a regression because of the loss of history ("how the hell did I get here?")

[pjmlp]

They also had a proper REPL, and the reason I stay with Java and .NET ecosystems, is because they are the closest we can get back to the Xerox experience, after the UNIX divergence.

[stjohnswarts]

Still available with DDD and various plugins to vim/emacs/vscode