Drop info from certian commands

[derekparker]

Drop info from certian commands

[pnasrat]

What is the goal. If you're trying to emulate gdb command line then obviously this breaks that - but I think we can do better user experience than GDB.

I'd love for an actual debugging API to be better defined so eg the websocket API ine #57 could be more restful and we could eg implement a grpc API ontop also. Something a little higher level to consume than proctl

This is more comparable to eg JDWP http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jpda/jdwp-spec.html than to a CLI focussed debugger but I think might lead to a richer tool ecosystem - for IDE integration/web frontends/etc.

[derekparker]

I have absolutely no problem breaking away from gdb style commands. Right now info is the one that most closely mimics gdb. The goal is to have the best user experience we can.

I'm certainly up for outline a higher level api - I've tossed around the idea of going more traditional client/server route with Delve. All clients (cli, web, ide) would speak with a debug "server" which would speak a well defined protocol, trivializing the addition of new clients.

If you'd like to open a discussion about it I'm up for fleshing the idea out more, and in the meantime I might spike on this idea, and see what it looks like. Initially there was no need for this type of design, however I think now it may be beneficial.

[pnasrat]

Happy to flesh out more. What's the best forum for discussion?

Just as another approach:

https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/protocol/1.1/index
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/protocol/1.1/console

That being said that doesn't block iterating on the CLI right now.

[derekparker]

@pnasrat I can create an issue today to begin discussion and track changes.