Well, they could have the resources to do it if they didn't scare away every new user (and potential contributor) with "Trust me, it gets good once you dedicate your entire life to it".

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Trust me bro, after you spend 342786 hours learning GDB, you'll be able to write scripts that will be able to test you programs for regressions and stuff, but only if you write command-line utilities in the first place, and if you needed a GUI for more real time stuff, then you're a soyboy !

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 points 1 week ago

I mean, technically, there are pretty good frontends for gdb, for example in VS Code and CLion but I guess if you use them, you're a corporate shill or something because they are backed by companies and contain code that isn't licensed under (A)GPLv3.

[–] PoPoP@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

not everyone wants to give up control of their life's work in exchange for funding. funding comes with stipulations.