On: Raku: A language for gremlins

[db48x]

That’s exactly what you want in a language. It should always feel like cheating!

Also debuggers. Give RR a try some time :)

[eddd-ddde → db48x]

I imagine you are referring to https://rr-project.org/ ?

Had never heard of it, looks pretty amazing, I might actually enjoy debugging now!

[fuzztester → eddd-ddde]

Low contrast text site.

I know there are workarounds, but we shouldn't need them.

[celrod → db48x]

Every time I try it, it doesn't seem to work right. Because I don't feel like debugging my debugger, I just go back to gdb.

Yet I only hear other people speaking of it positively, so it seems they don't have that experience.

[db48x → celrod]

It does have some annoying hardware requirements. It works on both modern Intel and AMD Ryzen CPUs, but if your CPU is too old it just can’t. And at any time the next generation of CPUs could break the whole thing, although that hasn’t been a problem yet.

[planede → celrod]

FWIW I had bad experiences with rr shipped with Ubuntu LTS. I build rr from source, it's relatively easy to do.