<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> that&#39;s the state of tech in 2025. going downhill. fast. </p><p>🤔 hmm</p><p>now I&#39;m wondering if you could fake that key press with things like xdotools or AutoHotKey</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@manawyrm" class="u-url mention">@<span>manawyrm</span></a></span> exactly...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> because people actually need to use it… 🫣😹</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@mega" class="u-url mention">@<span>mega</span></a></span> the interesting conceptual difference is that windbg is built by people who need to get things done and gdb is free and open source software</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@mega" class="u-url mention">@<span>mega</span></a></span> the gdb and lldb UIs are both actively hostile to my attempts to use them</p><p>gdb&#39;s approach to customization (embedding python scripts in the binary? they&#39;re not even position independent?? you have to add them to your trusted path list because they&#39;re fucking python scripts???) is also clearly worse than NatVis</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> like is it just &quot;more comfortable&quot; usability-wise? Is there some interesting conceptual difference?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span></p><p>Can you help me understand what are we missing from the gdb/lldb world? (other than having a UI instead of insisting on shit IDE integration and cmdline usage)</p><p>IIRC I&#39;ve only used wingdb for extracting info from a minidump. I&#39;ve never debugged a live process 😅</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I was briefly hopeful that it was free software 😩</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span><br />Can&#39;t you just run it in wine?</p>