Debug Adapter Protocol

I've been using the neovim plugin nvim-dap [0] together with nvim-jdtls [1] to get Java hot reload to work. It works without problems. Also, @mfussenegger@github is a quite nice dev, helped me personally to fix some isssues I had while setting it up.

[0]: https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap

[1]: https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-jdtls

Just found this tonight, and it seems promising. It's essentially like a LSP language server, except for debugging rather than smart editor features.

There are quite a few debug adapters already available:

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement...

Which can be connected from a fair number of clients:

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/implement...

This is a pretty decent protocol. I've used it to add support for debugging a C64 application via VICE in my 6502 assembler MOS. [0]

The last time I did a deep dive into the protocol it was missing a few features like viewing memory (or, rather, I think it was in the protocol but not really useable in VS Code yet?) but it is a well thought-out protocol overall.

The only drawback is that the communication protocol is different from the one used by LSP, it would've been nice if this had been identical.

[0] https://mos.datatra.sh