On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Besides, this is not > debugging, this is remote debugging, and if anything screams "premium", > it's a feature like this. Anyone who has been building for mobile since we > could do that with LC has been working with their own personal debugging > hacks. You can debug mobile, on the device, without this tool. > Hey Mike, I completely disagree with this notion that having a debugger is a premium feature. As you say, anyone who was building mobile was crafting helpers to help debug their creations but this is not the same as stepping through the code with a debugger. Lets not mix the act of debugging an app (removing bugs) with having a real debugger. For example, for ages Web Developers filled their code with alert() dialogs and console.log() calls which is much like we do with LC on mobile, but, all browsers these days ship real debuggers and both Chrome and Firefox ship with remote debuggers, heck Firefox alone can debug iOS Safari from Desktop Linux. Remote debuggers are not a fancy premium feature. Android Studio (which is the free oficial IDE) has a remote debugger. Visual Studio has remote debugger. Phonegap has a remote debugger. Corona SDK has a remote debugger. Basically everyone that is shipping mobile apps has a remote debugger and is not charging a premium on it. An Indy License costs more than 500 USD per year. Thats not peanuts, thats a solid investment, not allow people who make such investment from having a normal standard tool for mobile app development is crazy! LC on mobile is already buggy enough on the engine side, having this debugger would have the side effect of making it easier for us to contribute bug recipes for example. Lots of time here we loose a precious amount of time trying to identify if the bug is on our side of the code or the engine since we can't step through it. -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode