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mech422 ◴[] No.42146468[source]
oh nice - reminds me of DDD(1) DDD was like magic first time I saw it. Oh wow - DDD is still maintained ?? :-D

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Display_Debugger

2 https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

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j1elo ◴[] No.42146504[source]
DDD was taught to me when in University, 20 years ago, and it already felt clunky, my views are now much more moderate but Motif still feels like an eyesore.

Conversations over the years have shown me that DDD was a great inverse marketing tool, ironically pushing developers towards the embedded debugger UI in their favorite IDEs... despite DDD itself being indeed very powerful. But even "usefulness over aesthetics" has its limits!

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1. anthk ◴[] No.42147301[source]
Current DDD under the updated OpenMotif with TTF fonts can look much better than it did in the 90's and 00's, miles ahead than LessTif/former propietary Motif. It blends perfectly with EMWM where I have Liberation Sans/Mono for almost everything.