Debug C++ in Pulsar (LLDB preferred)

[b3n-h4il]

Is there someone also using Pulsar for C++ development (mostly learning in my case)? I'd like some pointer on how to debug code. Searching the packages, I've found some debug extensions, but they're not maintained and use gdb. I'm willing to learn how to develop an extension to do that, but at this stage it'd be a long way for me.

[savetheclocktower]

The bad news is that I'm not aware of any extension that acts as a frontend to a C/C++ debugger — though we'd certainly help with mentoring if you wanted to modernize one of those unmaintained extensions.

Despite the fact that it doesn't do debugging, the best option is probably pulsar-ide-clangd — which uses the clangd language server:

• Out of the box you'll get autocompletion and symbol navigation (via Cmd-R/Ctrl-R) and the ability to jump to the declaration of the symbol under the cursor (the Symbols View: Go To Declaration command, whose hotkey varies by platform).
• Combine it with linter and linter-ui-default and you'll get annotation of errors/warnings in your code.
• Other packages listed in pulsar-ide-clangd’s README deliver userful features; you can pick and choose which ones you want.

[b3n-h4il]

Thank you for your quick answer. Yeah, I'm using those extensions, and I really like them, you're their maintainer right? Thanks again. The mentoring to create an extension for a front-end for the debugger sounds interesting, but currently I don't have a lot of knowledge about web tech, and understand very litle of how Pulsar works under the hood. Other than the Launch manual, do you have a suggestion for a beginner developing an extension? I've been search for some tutorial to create a "Hello world" kinda extension, but no success yet.

[savetheclocktower]

Other than the Launch manual, do you have a suggestion for a beginner developing an extension? I've been search for some tutorial to create a "Hello world" kinda extension, but no success yet.

The “Word Count” package tutorial in the docs is the closest thing we have. (That URL links to our new docs, which are not 100% done but are hopefully easier to read and navigate through.) There are a couple tutorials that follow for other sorts of packages.

If you get through those and have an idea for any other sort of package other than a debugger, I'd do that one first, because a debugger is jumping straight from Algebra 101 to upper-division Calculus. (Though, of course, it's not quite as intimidating if you're trying to rehabilitate an old extension that used to work.)

[savetheclocktower]

Yeah, I'm using those extensions, and I really like them, you're their maintainer right? Thanks again.

You're welcome! I do maintain most of the pulsar-ide- packages, but most of those are just modernizations of work done by other people. I didn't change much about pulsar-ide-clangd except update one of its dependencies to improve integration with things that we've added to Pulsar since the fork.

[b3n-h4il]

Something else: Is this the best place to talk about extension development and Pulsar stuff? The Lemmy account seems not as popular as the GitHub discussions. I'm not a huge fan of talking one-to-one personally, I like foruns better.

[savetheclocktower]

For something like this, probably. The Discord sees the most activity out of anything, but if you prefer forums to chat, then this is it.