42 points edelsohn 2 days ago 3 comments

bitbasher 1 day ago | parent

> GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Go, Rust, and many other languages.

Heh, it's cute GDB introduces itself. We all know what you are. You've earned your place in history.

ChrisRR 1 day ago | parent

For every greybeard that knows all the tools like the back of their hand, there's someone new joining the industry who doesn't know what gdb is

spit2wind 1 day ago | parent

With all respect, not everyone does know what GDB is. Cue the classic Lucky 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053

I assume you commented as gesture of gratitude. I comment to emphasize the importance of not assuming and as a reminder to project authors to include information, like what their project is and does, in their documentation. Such information should be included per common sense, but alas, it often isn't.