[haXe] Debugger Request.

[Nicolas Cannasse]

>>The value of a debugger decrease partly of the quality of exceptions
>>reports you get. Now that both Flash9 and Neko can get complete stack
>>trace on exceptions, with planned supported for Flash<=8 and JS as well,
>>the amount of work needed to develop a debugger does not match its
>>usefulness.
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> This is just wrong. If it were true that the value of a debugger
> doesnt match the effort then the zillions of other languages that have
> debuggers wouldnt have them, because it wouldnt be worth it.

Before this thread go wild, I would like to precise that I didn't meant
at any time that a debugger was not useful. I have been using C debugger
for a long time and I know its value and capabilities.

I will eventually work in the future on something for haXe (especially
the JS part which seems funny to do) but I have others priorities right now.

> By the way. I am not suggesting a debugger for JS. That is likely
> impossible. But for Neko and Flash 9+ it is totally doable. For flash,
> you are expecting people to give up a totally modern kick ass IDE
> debugger, environment and framework, for some improved (though very
> similar) language syntax?

haXe improvments are not about the syntax. I don't mean to be rude but
if you restrict your view of language differences to syntax changes then
you really don't get what a programming language is about.

Nicolas