Re: c/c++ project management and debugging

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >> Forgot to mention: neither "C-g" does break the hang nor the hang
>> >> happens whenever I issue some specific command.  Thus your debugger,
>> >> REPL and whole lisp development environment can't help.  You'd need a
>> >> powerful IDE to debug such intricate cases.
>>
>> > Frankly that's just bullshit.
>> > Do you think an IDE could help you to solve problems with Emacs?
>
> Of course it would.  Tracing, profiling and similar tools are
> available for languages which are more powerful than extension
> languages.

They are REQUIRED to be able to work with languages that are LESS
powerful than lisp.


>> > If it hangs and there is something serious your IDE will crash as well.
>
> And you would debug it inside the IDE too.  What environment do you
> think Eclipse developers use to debug Eclipse and its plugins?

We also use emacs lisp to debug emacs lisp.

Now, I grant you that we have a problem, in that some of emacs has been
written in C, instead of lisp.  This is for historical and practical (at
the time) reasons: to help spreading emacs, it had to be available on
unix system, where lisp compilers weren't easily available.

Nowadays, there are more lisp compilers on linux than C compilers, so it
would be easy to rewrite emacs in lisp.  


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