gwomacks/php-debug

Decrease coupling between debug interface and debugging engines

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gwomacks commented

Need to refactor code base so other debugging engines can be integrated with the interface

dpo commented

Is this still in the cards? It would be great to plug in debuggers for other languages.

nsrosenqvist commented

Does this mean that it would allow for a default debugger interface with different language drivers? That sounds like something that the Atom IDE project would be interested in contributing with.

nsrosenqvist commented

Recently noticed that atom-ide-ui plans to integrate the Nuclide debugger in the future and I guess they would provide a language agnostic ui for it with drivers for different languages, like how they've integrated different ide-features through the Language Server Protocol. Here's the issue mentioning the plans: facebookarchive/atom-ide-ui#75

mostafaeweda commented

I just finished v1 of atom-ide-debugger as part of https://ide.atom.io/ with some debuggers initially supported:

There will be more debugger backends coming + third party debuggers can be easily integrated.

cchamplin commented

This was also handled with the release of atom-debug-ui: https://atom.io/packages/atom-debug-ui

At the moment this package looks like it's directly competing with atom-ide-debugger, but I'm not sure that atom-ide-debugger has all the functionality atom-debug-ui does so this requires further investigation

nsrosenqvist commented

@cchamplin I believe that atom-ide-debugger will be the preferred alternative since that is from the official atom-ide project and will undoubtedly receive more attention and support (850 stars vs 0 stars) . It was recently decoupled from the nuclide-debugger and it's a very elegant and simple to use debugger.

cchamplin commented

@nsrosenqvist understood. The development of atom-debug-ui predates the atom-ide/atom-ide-debugger package, so the overlap was accidental. With 0.3.0 landing today, and switching to the new ui backend provided via atom-debug-ui it's more or less just bad timing with the release of atom-ide-debugger last month.

Unfortunately I have a number of other projects to maintain/devote my time to; so another rewrite of PHP-Debug for a different UI package is not going to be possible for me personally for at least 6 to 12 months. Especially because some of the functionality PHP-Debug requires might need to be added upstream into atom-ide-debugger.

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nsrosenqvist commented

@cchamplin, sorry to hear that! It's very unfortunate timing indeed. I trust that the new update to php-debug will serve us well in the meantime, thank you for the hard work you've invested into the project!