CodeLLDB VS nvim-dap

Compare CodeLLDB vs nvim-dap and see what are their differences.

nvim-dap

Debug Adapter Protocol client implementation for Neovim (by mfussenegger)
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CodeLLDB nvim-dap
23 140
2,689 5,938
1.8% 2.4%
8.6 8.8
18 days ago 11 days ago
Rust Lua
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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CodeLLDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of CodeLLDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
  • custom pretty printer/debug helpers for C++ debugging?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 19 May 2023
    Ok, so apparently here they are called 'data formatters' instead of pretty printers or debug helpers... https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb/wiki/Custom-Data-Formatters
  • Visualization tools when working with C++?
    2 projects | /r/computervision | 14 May 2023
    For debugging lldb supports python scripts: https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb/wiki/Data-visualization
  • Zig Build System
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2023
    I use VS Code on Linux to debug Zig. Haven't tried the others you mentioned, but it just emits standard DWARF symbols, so I'm guessing if you can debug C/C++ you could probably also do Zig with minimal changes? I just use the lldb VS code plugin[0], which works out of the box for me with no issues.

    https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb

  • How game-dev-s debug rust?
    1 project | /r/rust_gamedev | 11 Apr 2023
    It's pretty bad, unfortunately. As you discovered, using the gnu toolchain works better with code-lldb (see more info here), but it still isn't great. CLion is a little better, but costs money and lacks support in other ways compared to VSCode.
  • Debug rust program as root
    1 project | /r/vscode | 2 Mar 2023
  • Migrating from VSCode to Neovim
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Feb 2023
    - I tried to install codelldb: https://github.com/vadimcn/vscode-lldb without success.
  • Does anyone here work in gamedev with Rust as their primary language?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 25 Feb 2023
    Are you on Windows or Linux? On Windows I've had nothing but trouble getting code-lldb to display debug info for any sort of nontrivial data structure due to this issue, which means I need to switch to x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, but then that breaks other upstream crates that use cc to compile C++ code.
  • [blog] Rust should own its debugger experience
    4 projects | /r/rust | 12 Jan 2023
    I've been using vscode-lldb with VS Code on macos, and I've been very happy with the experience so far.
  • i need some recommendations
    1 project | /r/learnrust | 1 Jan 2023
    Check this: https://github.com/vadimcn/vscode-lldb/wiki/Breakpoints-are-not-getting-hit
  • using VScode codeLLDB
    1 project | /r/rust | 30 Aug 2022
    yeah since they updated the rust compiler for windows to use a different style of debugger symbols and since they changed that in CodeLLDB the variables output have not been the same. Though i believe the owner has been trying to fix it. But any issues you do have report them on the codeLLDB git https://github.com/vadimcn/vscode-lldb

nvim-dap

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim-dap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CodeLLDB and nvim-dap you can also consider the following projects:

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

vimspector - vimspector - A multi-language debugging system for Vim

just - 🤖 Just a command runner

nvim-gdb - Neovim thin wrapper for GDB, LLDB, PDB/PDB++ and BashDB

rst - The open source design documentation tool for everybody [Moved to: https://github.com/vitiral/artifact]

vscode-cpptools - Official repository for the Microsoft C/C++ extension for VS Code.

cargo-linked - Display linked packages for compiled rust binaries

nvim-dap-go - An extension for nvim-dap providing configurations for launching go debugger (delve) and debugging individual tests

vscode-js-debug - A DAP-compatible JavaScript debugger. Used in VS Code, VS, + more

lldb_batchmode.py

LunarVim - 🌙 LunarVim is an IDE layer for Neovim. Completely free and community driven.

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