Comment by irishcoffee
10 hours ago
I feel like this article is severely flawed.
Debugging wasm qt apps is not hard at all. Yes, as the article says, you need to build the code in debug mode, this isn’t unusual.
If you use qtcreator, it’s, and I hate this word, trivial. Most of the work comes from setting up the qt kit in qtcreator… which takes about 5 minutes.
Breakpoints just work. Debugging just works. Everything… works.
> Breakpoints just work. Debugging just works. Everything… works.
...and you're actually debugging the WASM executable which runs in a browser and not a native version of the application?
Not that it matters most of the time, I also do 99% of my debugging session on the native target. But for debugging problems that only happen in the WASM version actually debugging the WASM version makes a lot of sense, and that was anything but trivial not too long ago (if QtCreator can actually pull off a remote debugging session where the debuggee runs in Chrome then kudos to QtCreator).
I think you are disconnected from the pain of debugging in the past. The fact that it all works so seamlessly together now is a bit fascinating and astounding.
Well anyone who worked on native apps has had seamlessly working debuggers for ages :)
I am not at all disconnected, but I understand why you might say that.