ocamlearlybird: make OCaml debugging less sucks

ocamlearlybird is a debug adapter purely written in OCaml. See debug adapter protocol to get more information.

Installation

ocamlearlybird can be installed with opam:

opam install earlybird

To use ocamlearlybird in VS Code. Install the extension

Features

• Auto discover sources heuristically
• Line breakpoints and column breakpoints
• Basic next, step in, step out and continue commands
• Inspect stack frames, local variables, closure variables and global variables
• Function breakpoints
• Limited expression evaluation
• Conditional breakpoints
• Time travel

Documentation

By default ocamlearlybird use stdin and stdout for debug adapter protocol. To launch ocamlearlybird as debug adapter in server mode:

ocamlearlybird --server --port=4711