Measuring the effectiveness of debug info in gcc and clang by comparing how often a variable is known to be defined vs how often you can access it:
https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/11/comparing-quality-of-debug-information.html?m=1
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It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it!
This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles.
Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.
I'm playing with DOT output for debugging syntax trees from difftastic. Here's an F# snippet, the Debug representation, and the DOT rendered as an image.
I'm pleased with the information density on the graphic, but we'll see how often I end up using it.
C++ no longer considers trivial infinite loops to be undefined behaviour! https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p2809r3.html
Spotted in the release notes for the latest clang.