Delve is a source-level debugger designed specifically for the Go programming language. Unlike general-purpose debuggers, it understands Go’s runtime environment, data structures and concurrency model.
The debugger allows developers to control program execution, inspect variables and investigate problems involving multiple goroutines. Its awareness of the Go runtime makes it particularly useful when tracking down problems that are difficult to examine with conventional debuggers.
Delve provides an interactive terminal interface, but it can also operate as a headless debugging server. This makes it suitable for integration with development environments and remote debugging workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Debug Go applications at source level with breakpoints, stepping and expression evaluation.
- Inspect goroutines, switch between them and examine their associated stack frames.
- View local variables, function arguments, registers and other program state.
- Compile and debug Go packages directly using the debug command.
- Run debugging sessions against precompiled Go executables.
- Debug test programs using the test command.
- Attach to running processes and investigate failures without restarting the application.
- Examine core dumps to investigate program crashes.
- Run as a headless debugging server with JSON-RPC and Debug Adapter Protocol interfaces.
- Connect to remote debugging sessions from a terminal client or compatible development environment.
- Replay compatible rr recordings to investigate previously recorded execution.
Website: github.com/go-delve/delve
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Developer: Delve Team
License: MIT License
Delve is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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