From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Visual Studio IDE - Integration Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 09:37:17 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <427190d2-0fb4-465b-b1be-0a10d9b2d290@googlegroups.com> <1ce198d4-7316-436d-8867-e323a5ab1741@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vZYCW951TbFitc4GdEwQJg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:33269 Date: 2017-02-07T09:37:17+01:00 List-Id: On 07/02/2017 08:46, Hadrien Grasland wrote: > To clarify, GDB is actually pretty awesome as a command-line tool. > But no one has ever bothered - or managed - to write a good GUI frontend for it. In fact GPS has a pretty cool debugger's front end. It has a bit less comfortable debugging interface than Visual Studio's, but still all bells and whistles. IMO GPS is far better than latter incarnations of Visual Studio. Since VS 2005 it goes clearly down the slope. The only thing where Studio is better than GPS is debugging. [*] The problem is that it becomes usable when the project gets any larger and more complex. Knowing that AdaCore has awesome software designers and that other parts of the tool-chain are working seamless, I put blame squarely on GDB. ----------------- * And MS linker. GNU linker is a disaster with regard to performance. It takes literally an hour to link a large stand-alone relocatable library. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de