The Arduino Pro IDE Gets a Real Debugger in v0.0.5-Alpha Build
"One of the most requested Arduino Pro IDE features," according to the development team, the Arduino Debugger is now available.
Arduino has officially unveiled its first preview build of the Arduino Debugger, an upcoming feature of its Arduino Pro Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software development platform.
Described the the Arduino team as "one of the most requested Arduino Pro IDE features," the Arduino Debugger is designed to make it as easy as possible to track down issues in an Arduino sketch. In prototype form, the debugger allows for step-by-step execution on real hardware, the insertion of breakpoints to automatically halt execution and pause the program, and manual inspection of all variables.
While the alpha release of the Arduino Debugger is cross-platform, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux, there's one small catch: Its initial version is compatible only with boards based on the Microchip SAM D21 microcontroller.
The Arduino Debugger is now active in Arduino Pro IDE v0.0.5-alpha.preview, which is available to download in pre-compiled binary and source code form from the Arduino GitHub repository.