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Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

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neitsa · 1790201423 · focus · HN ↗
While I really do appreciate having multiple choices when it comes to tooling I beg to differ when saying that windbg is archaic. As someone who is spending a lot of time with windbg, I think it's fair to say they really put some effort in it: TTD (time travel debugging), JS scriping, Linux core dump support, new type of queries and the data model, new commands, and an upcoming integrated MCP (functionalities \ function names visible in the data model). That being said, there's a lot of baggage for such an old software and there are definitely some pain points. But as said, I like to have a choice (I sometimes use x64dbg for example), so the more, the merrier! I'll definitely give yours a try. Good luck for the beta and the release!
1. Loren_SL · 1790202430 · focus · HN ↗
  Good points - maybe "arcane" would have been a better word to describe WinDbg - you can do just about anything, provided you know the right incantation. I hope you enjoy ForensicDbg!
_dky · 1790206306 · focus · HN ↗
Reminds of CANASTA for VMS operating system. I never used it but heard many war stories where developers and support would analyze complex crashes in cluster software.
<a href="https://cdn.aaai.org/IAAI/1991/IAAI91-013.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.aaai.org/IAAI/1991/IAAI91-013.pdf
1. Loren_SL · 1790271106 · focus · HN ↗
  It is not every day you see a VMS reference! Interesting read.
kjksf · 1790207056 · focus · HN ↗
consider this a constructive criticism: improve the landing page.
The video is a good idea but not like this. It's both large and I can't see anything, just things moving.
When I fullscreen, instead of getting larger video, I get the same thing.
Record a video (and upload to youtube) that does a well-paced walkthrough of doing an analysis, with narration, maybe demonstrating how it's unique / different from windbg.
1. r1ch · 1790212994 · focus · HN ↗
  I came away frustrated by this too, I wanted to see the UI but it seems to be some kind of non-interactable embed instead of a video that I can fullscreen or popout etc.
2. Loren_SL · 1790270955 · focus · HN ↗
  Thanks - I'll try to make it easier to read and tell what is going on.
tochihenry28 · 1790257040 · focus · HN ↗
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