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by D4ckard 955 days ago
Yeah, I don't think so. It's x86_64 only, and C only too. Some points from your list make sense now, but most of it is simply not part of Spray's scope, and never has been ...
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Not commenting on the debugger specifically, but: keep being curious & experimenting, it will go a long way :-) (I was in your shoes)
The point the parent commenter is trying to make is that building a general purpose C debugger is not some kind of trivial exercise that can be shipped in 6 months, and claiming to have done so is disingenuous and pompous.
The parent commenter doesn't need to piss on a 17 year old for sharing their work and progress. You could also take a moment to step back and reflect on this.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't cross into name-calling and certainly not personal attack.

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> claiming to have done so is disingenuous and pompous.

I don't read anything that might express that?

Especially with:

>> Its feature set is limited at this point, but it's already enough to tackle some basic problems.

> building a general purpose C debugger is not some kind of trivial exercise

Yes

> claiming to have done so is disingenuous and pompous

Nobody has claimed to do so in this situation. You are inventing conflict. Also I don't think bregma intended to be this targeting or accusatory, why are you speaking for them?