Writing a Debugger from Scratch: Breakpoints

• Crafting Interpreters

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  Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"

I was asking this myself this while reading the book "Crafting Interpreters". I posted a few resources I found on an issue about implementing debuggers [] although honestly I still haven't gotten down to read all of them (or to implement a debugger! :-/).

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: https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/92...

• rust-sitter

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  Use Tree Sitter to parse your own languages in Rust

  

This is a great series!

I noticed that the author was using https://github.com/hydro-project/rust-sitter as a parser. Which is based on https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/. I've been hearing about Tree-sitter a lot recently, so I dug into it.

Tree-sitter is a tool for generating fast, incremental parsers. In particular, the algorithm is suited towards writing "language servers" for IDEs, which re-parse code incrementally as the user works. These kinds of incremental parsers have historically been a huge problem. It looks like Tree-sitter is an enormous practical advance in this area.

And discovering that there's a way to use Tree-sitter from Rust is fantastic. From the post:

    #[rust_sitter::language]

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• python-dbg

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  Python debugger experiments

I've done something similar in Python: A Python debugger from scratch in Python

- https://github.com/parttimenerd/python-dbg/

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