As I fire up my C# debugger in windows it occurs to me “Is there a decent debugger for .NET code in MONO?”

Apparently there is. Having been a fan of debugging java code in jdb instead of a GUI, I like the looks of this. In fact, after a quick glance over the commands I would say that this debugger is based on jdb as the command set looks similar.

Now if you’ve never used a command line I’m sure you’re mumbling the standard caveman comments about using the command line for debugging. All I can say is there’s a learning curve, it feels clumsy at first but it quickly surpasses any GUI debugger in terms of performance, speed of use, etc as you become proficient with it.

Can you get up and running much faster in a GUI debugger? Yes, no question. Can you say the same after three months? My experience is no but I’m a caveman.

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