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I'm pretty sure in that interview at some point he realized becasue the debugger experience for developers using Linux sucks compared to Windows where he does most of his work.

Alot of programmers work in a Linux environment.

It seems like windows, ide and languages are all pretty nicely integrated together?

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> It seems like windows, ide and languages are all pretty nicely integrated together?

Not only, and not really. After all, for all its warts Visual Studio is still a decent debugger for C/C++. IntelliJ has pretty good debuggers across all of their IDEs for almost all languages (including things like automatically downloading and/or decompiling sources when you step into external libraries).

Even browsers ship with built-in debuggers (and Chrome's is really good). I still see a lot of people (including my colleagues) often spend inordinate amounts of time console.log'ing when just stepping though the program would suffice.

I think it's the question of culture: people are so used to using subpar tools, they can't even imagine what a good one may look like. And these tools constantly evolve. Here's RAD Debugger by Ryan Fleury: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1920345634026238106.html

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