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by turtledragonfly 1202 days ago
> undisputed king

Well, I personally do agree it's a better, more solid overall product. And also agreed that edit-and-continue in some highly stateful situation can be ::chef's kiss::

But I think there is room to dispute its kingliness (:

For instance, scripting GDB with Python is quite nice, on occasion.

Actually, just on Windows, WinDBG has some killer-feature functionality of its own.

Or back with GDB, take, for example, this classic post by Jonathan Blow, where there is some good back-n-forth discussion about GDB vs VStudio, with varying opinions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125078

Plenty of disputers out there, I daresay.