Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?
Summary
This Hacker News discussion revisits the DDD debugger and asks what a modern equivalent would look like for contemporary software—multi-threaded, async, and distributed systems. The thread highlights the tension between traditional pause-and-inspect models and newer ideas for visibility, with comments mentioning tools like Whitebox Systems and Scrutiny Debugger and noting embedded contexts as an area for improved observability.