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by Tomte 4447 days ago
How does it compare to OCaml's time-travelling debugger? Is the feature set and the debugging experience basically the same?
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I don't think that the OCaml debugger let you do the things demonstrated by Bret Victor in his talks, and implemented there. As explained elsewhere in this thread, these features let you replay a conputation sequence in a loop, and bind certain values of the computation context to visual inputs (sliders or more simply input boxes for instance) to modify these values during the replay loops. This let you observe how the computation sequence reacts to those changes. It allows a more playfull testing and tuning of a program. Of course it is way more useful in the case of a visual rendering performed by said computation. Please watch the Bret Victor's video for insight (maybe that one: http://vimeo.com/m/36579366).
There are about 50 or so time travel debuggers in existence. I want detailed comparisons now. Just joking.

Really, you can examine both systems and make your judgments. It's not like this is a paper with a comprehensive related work section.

Now? They are time travelling, I want a comparison yesterday.