Why the LLVM Debugger Has Already Won — And What GDB Developers Won’t Tell You

There’s a conversation that keeps happening in trading shops. Someone brings up LLDB, and the senior GDB loyalist in the room starts listing reasons to stay put. “I know all the commands.” “GDB has reverse debugging.” “It works fine.” And yes, GDB works fine — the same way a horse works fine after the car was invented.

LLDB hasn’t just caught up with GDB. It has lapped it. And the gap is widening every year. The architecture is superior, the expression evaluator is in a different league, and the development velocity makes GDB look like a maintenance-mode project. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and FreeBSD have all standardized on LLDB. The industry has voted. The holdouts are running out of excuses.

Let me show you why.

Full article: https://hftuniversity.com/post/why-the-llvm-debugger-has-already