Drill is a terminal-based debugger designed to provide a lightweight and simple debugging experience. While it is not yet stable and lacks many features found in full-featured debuggers, Drill has been a great alternative to print debugging and fits seamlessly into my workflows (terminal-based tools)
- Terminal User Interface (TUI): Built using Charmbracelet's Bubbletea and friends
- Breakpoint Management: Set, toggle, and delete breakpoints with ease.
- Callstack Navigation: View and navigate through the callstack during execution.
- Variable Inspection: Inspect local variables at runtime.
Drill is still in its early stages of development and is not stable. It lacks many features that other full-featured debuggers provide, such as:
- Comprehensive test case support (work in progress).
- Some debugging capabilities like watchpoints, or remote debugging.
- Robust error handling (there are still some bugs here and there to fix).
(However. Drill has become my go-to debugging tool for now. It effectively meets my current needs.)
Drill was created as a learning project to explore building TUIs with Charmbracelet's Bubbletea and related tools. Inspired by gdlv and powered by Delve
- Test Case Support: I plan to add support for most of the test cases described in aarzilli/delve_client_testing.
- Bug Fixes: Fix some of the annoying bugs.
- Feature Enhancements: Gradually adding more advanced debugging features to make Drill more robust.
A huge thank you to the following projects and their maintainers for their inspiration and contributions:
- Charmbracelet's Bubbletea & Friends: An amazing framework for building TUIs.
- gdlv: The main inspiration for Drill.
- Delve: The backend whose source code was a pleasure to read and learn from.