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Nice work, but certainly no replacement for PonyDebugger[0] with SuperDB[1]. Plus, they're both FOSS.

Sure, those don't have support for NSNotifications, but I've found it's best to avoid those as much as possible anyway (essentially like a super GOTO).

[0] https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger [1] http://shopify.github.io/superdb/

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I agree—PonyDebugger is great. I think it's less trivial to use, though. My goal with the Spark Inspector (and it's setup assistant, which makes all of the project changes for you) is to bring down the difficulty and provide an experience on par with Apple's built-in developer tools. I'd love to integrate FScript into the app so you can issue SuperDB-style commands. I think I'm gonna try to auto-convert into their NextStep syntax so people don't have to worry about it, though - we'll see how it goes :-)

Author of SuperDB here. I think you should be able to embed most of SuperDB itself directly in Spark Inspector. I'm not sure how you're doing runtime inspection, but SuperDB already has most of the underlying stuff already hooked up. I think they'd make a lovely pair!

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