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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2022–2024
peak thread · 191 comments
377 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-11-15
377 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I built it and tried it out a bit with Godot on Linux. It seems OK (the UI is a bit on the "- how many widgets do you want? - yes" side), but also a bit janky. Trying to change the font for the editor didn't work, hovering over a variable to see its value either does nothing (but there is a sub-second cursor change that indicates something is supposed to happen) or it shows an error from GDB…

Will try that one but so far I could not find better than gdb's tui mode. What's good about it if you're a command line vimmer is that it benefits from readline's vi editing mode if you say so in your .inputrc (although it's not as good as zsh's) So jk go up and down your history and other editing goodies. The only crucial piece of information to use it if you are debugging a program that prints stuff to…

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
588

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Total comments
251

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2022-10-01Seer – a GUI front end to GDB for LinuxFirst breakoutgjvc20960
2024-07-25Seer – a GUI front end to GDBbwidlar20
2024-11-15Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for LinuxBest thread · Latest 20+ point returnturrini377191