[haXe] Debugger Request.

[Lee McColl-Sylvester]

I have to say here that I find an IDE to be of little importance to a
language.  Most developers prefer syntax highlighting at least, as most
developers are poor at spelling (hey, it's a known fact ;-) ).

I think, as a language, haXe hits all the major points.  While a
debugger would be nice, there are alternatives for the time being.  For
Flash, you could always use a combination of Alcon and John Grden's
X-Ray, while for JavaScript, you have the same resources open to any
other JavaScript development tool.  Granted, Neko will need something in
the future, but this is an open source project, so why not get a team
together and develop one yourself?  :-)

Lee



-----Original Message-----
From: haxe-bounces at lists.motion-twin.com
[mailto:haxe-bounces at lists.motion-twin.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas
Cannasse
Sent: 22 August 2006 14:18
To: The haXe compiler list
Subject: Re: [haXe] Debugger Request.

>>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.
> 
> 
> 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

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