[BossingAround]

So, IIUIC, new capabilities:

- It'll be possible to print stack traces without modifying or stopping the program.

- It'll be possible to exec into a program at runtime without modifying it.

I'm not sure why the author mentions remote_pdb - this has been with Python for some time, and works since Py 2.7? Not sure what changes in 3.14 for remote_pdb.

What I'm hoping though is improved tooling around debugging Python. Currently, in my experience, VSCode (more specifically, debugpy) provides pretty much unmatched remote debugging capabilities, and I'm really hoping we can have a standardized way to connect any IDE to remote Python processes with the same UX as VSCode.

I would love to use something like Zed, but without remote debugging abilities, the IDE is pretty useless for me. Perhaps better devs don't need remote debugging, but I depend on it more than a junior in college CS program depends on AI :)

[jasonjmcghee]

I thought the author mentioned remote pdb because it sounds like you can use it to attach to cpython now, and previously gdb would have been needed? I'm at last a few years behind on debugging cpython... But always used gdb.

[rtpg]

> What I'm hoping though is improved tooling around debugging Python. Currently, in my experience, VSCode (more specifically, debugpy) provides pretty much unmatched remote debugging capabilities, and I'm really hoping we can have a standardized way to connect any IDE to remote Python processes with the same UX as VSCode.

This is what 3.14's remote debugging protocol gives us. And even more than that, because I believe that debugpy needs to be invoked beforehand!

The value of this tooling is you don't need to predict that you need debugging before running the program. All of your Python programs[0] can be debugged. No need to restart. No need to modify the launch parameters either: you don't need the "debug configuration" from vscode, you just need a PID.

[0]: so long as you're using the same version of Python and it has the remote debugging protocol enabled, and also you have the right OS permissions