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What's New in DevTools (Chrome 76)

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As a person who doesn't develop for browser, I'm always super impressed and envious of tooling. I occasionally (once in several months), would use some of these tools for some random small thing I made and I could just get started in seconds. On the other hand, the C++ tooling I've worked on in my career is always pain-in-* (unless of-course you go down full Visual Studio, CLion ... path I guess?).

Do you have the setup to try DTrace? Solaris, Illumos, OSX and FreeBSD support it out of the box. You can install a custom build on Linux as well.

Or, do you have access to a Linux system? You could try eBPF.

And there also DTrace coming to Windows

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...

I have found the opposite to be true: desktop dev tools are so good (especially visual studio), I’m always shocked at how horrible things are when I’m asked to debug something directly in Chrome (at least let me to use visual studio code!).

With the revamped networking is there a way to exclude OPTIONS requests by default like the "disable cache" checkbox that gets remembered? It's really annoying having to type in "-method:OPTIONS" all the time.

I’m still waiting for Dark Mode support in Chrome DevTools. It’s one of the last things I use that doesn’t support it yet, and it’s very jarring at night.

There is a Dark Theme in settings of DevTools. Is there a difference between a Dark Theme and Dark Mode?

I didn’t know there’s a built-in dark theme. Thanks, I’ll use it.

By “Dark Mode support”, I was primarily referring to the behavior where an app automatically switches between light/dark theme based on the macOS system-wide Dark Mode setting. Having a dark theme is very close, but it requires the user to switch to it manually (and also requires knowing that it's possible to switch; case in point, I didn't even realize DevTools had its own separate theme).

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