Cybernetic Vermin posted:

debuggers could be made a lot more user-friendly really.

tbqh i sort of suspect that beginners would be more likely to use the debugger if you could invoke it with what looks like a function call, like "stopAndInspect(o)" which just breakpoints there, and brings up a nicely explorable watch of the object 'o'. just to remove the modality and often crummy ui of breakpoints from the learning process.