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A native, user-mode, multi-process, graphical debugger.

20 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 5 stories, 15 comments · first 2024-01-11 · latest 2026-07-14

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  1. …that destructors and contained memory allocation avoid. Raw heap allocations, raw mem copies etc. https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger/issues/735 . Here's a complex memory cleanup race condition that's 'solved' with a sleep function.…
    comment by jstimpfle · 2026-07-14 · in Understanding the Odin programming language
  2. …that destructors and contained memory allocation avoid. Raw heap allocations, raw mem copies etc. https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger/issues/855 Here's a complex memory cleanup race condition that's 'solved' with a sleep function.…
    comment by CyberDildonics · 2026-07-14 · in Understanding the Odin programming language
  3. …recently created their own debug format (RDI) to replace PDB and DWARF. Could be worth a gander. https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger?tab=readme-ov-fi...
    comment by lylejantzi3rd · 2026-03-11 · in Standardizing source maps
  4. …bells and whistles. [1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [2] https://filepilot.tech/ [3] https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
    comment by nananana9 · 2026-02-09 · in A Broken Heart
  5. …Sadly it's windows only yet, but they have plans to port it to other platforms. - [0]: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
    comment by TheRoque · 2026-01-26 · in Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
  6. …debugger to demonstrate how bad it is? No. Other people do it, single-handedly . See RAD Debugger ( https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger ) and RemedyBG ( https://remedybg.handmade.network ). Relevant Casey rant:…
    comment by troupo · 2025-12-18 · in Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
  7. https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger At first I read Radeberger, a German beer brand.
    comment by cachius · 2025-11-17 · in Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
  8. …decide for themselves whether or not it’s practical only for “simple sub tasks or basic CLI tools”: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger/blob/c738768e411... https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger/blob/master/src/...
    comment by rfleury · 2025-10-10 · in Multi-Core by Default
  9. Ryan is the author of the RAD Debugger: https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
    comment by kelsolaar · 2025-10-10 · in Multi-Core by Default
  10. ….[ch]{,pp} files with very simple code in them, and compiling them. I'd recommend checking out e.g. https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger . They are doing a lot of codegen. The codebase is very self-sufficient. Currently works only…
    comment by jstimpfle · 2025-10-07 · in Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994)
  11. Related: Ryan is the lead developer behind Epic Games's raddebugger. https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger/
    comment by HexDecOctBin · 2025-06-11 · in Demystifying Debuggers
  12. Sounds like it's a little ways off though, no? https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger/issues/23
    comment by jpeeler · 2025-05-06 · in Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB
  13. Keep at it! raddbg is one worth watching too (currently only Windows x64) https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
    comment by s3graham · 2025-02-01 · in Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
  14. …great to see. It'd be lovely if Linux gets a decent debugger. Another project to keep an eye on is https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger Although, they haven't expanded much beyond Windows, yet.
    comment by tux1968 · 2025-01-31 · in Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
  15. For windows, there is also [The RAD Linker]( https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger?tab=readme-ov-fi... ) though quite early days.
    comment by dundarious · 2025-01-24 · in Wild – A fast linker for Linux
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    story by davikr · 2024-10-19 · 0 comments
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    story by ibobev · 2024-10-15 · 0 comments
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    RAD Debugger
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    RAD Debugger by Epic Games
    story by z3phyr · 2024-01-12 · 2 comments
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    story by 029 · 2024-01-11 · 2 comments