miniblog.

Which programming languages follow the "cathedral" design philosophy, where they provide most of: the runtime, stdlib, debugger, LSP, test harness, code formatter and package manager? Go, Dart and Smalltalk are the closest I can think of.

Rust's RFC 3191 will let libraries package debugger scripts so you get a better experience when using gdb or windbg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DLdQ6yb7h8 is a really accessible introduction to programming workflows with Sly for Common Lisp. The notion of 'stickers' is novel to me: you mark places in the code where you want to remember values (essentially tracing) or pop to a debugger (breakpoints).