Not 5 levels, but I once wrote debug visualizers for a compiler using funceval (the visualizer uses the debugger to run code in the target process).

I think I once had to debug the debugger debugging the compiler compiling itself which felt like another really weird kind of recursion.

It's about trademarks - see https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245742145119510529

OH Thank You. Now I feel much better. Still dislike the name but my brain is much easier on me knowing there is a valid reason behind it.

Microsoft Research has been working on DNA storage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage...

Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer at Microsoft, gave this short talk on using Visual Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc

I realize this isn't a console, but I think it is a good demonstration of an expert doing typical developer activities.

PowerShell can be shorter by 1 character for this use case:

  irm wttr.in

irm is an alias for Invoke-RestMethod which is similar to Invoke-WebRequest but better for non-html responses like json or plain text.

If you to use this on Windows, you'll need to update `less.exe` with my patched version - https://github.com/lzybkr/less/releases/tag/fix_windows_vt

It does not, but it seems like a popular request: https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/40

I guess it's time to reread Starship and the Canoe - a great book about Freeman's nuclear weapon powered spaceship and his son George's interest in building boats. I thoroughly enjoyed it 25+ years ago.

AFL might eventually get lucky, but I'm guessing you'd want a hybrid approach that combines symbolic execution with a fuzzer like AFL, e.g. QSYM [1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

Visual C++ has the __debugbreak() intrinsic function.

If you have JIT debug enabled, you will be prompted to attach your debugger to the process when hitting such a breakpoint.