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A major concern to me is how to Debug Nim. Considering it compiles into C as a first step, I would have thought that Debugging may have quite a few issues and gotchas as well as some good tips and tricks.

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Debugging via gdb and frontends using gdb like KDevelop or QtCreator works very well - except data drilling. But that may be solved eventually.

But gdb probably will point to C source line instead of nim's source. That might be a problem.

No, you get Nim source code debugging using line number directives etc, works great including breakpoints and all. I have tested several IDEs and it works. But data inspection does generally not work - that would require some work to support GDB protocols.

Fortunately, GDB is scriptable in Python. The C++ add-ons make life so much easier, no reason it can't be done for Nim.

This will be covered as part of Chapter 5.

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