Unfortunate name as it has nothing to do with databases, RevDBG would be much better... That said, it looks interesting.

*db is common nomenclature for debuggers: gdb, lldb, cdb, pdb

It's also a common suffix for databases, whereas "dbg" is unambiguous.

If I saw dbg I would have no idea what you were talking about.

"DBG" == "Debugger" is a fairly common thing.

Not to me, and have been in the field 10 years. Would be curious to see the survey results.. all I can say is 100% would not recognize it.

But usually in lowercase...

Would be cool to get the naming right at the beginning. RevDBG makes much more sense

The official python debugger is called pdb, so this is following convention. Moreover, bdb and gdb have coexisted since the 80s without causing much confusion. I think we'll survive.

The reason I posted this is that RevDB just had its first beta release, and now I just found the official blog post announcing that release. So probably better than the above url would have been this, https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/09/revdb-released-v541.ht...

For anyone who has used this, how does it compare to the PyCharm debugger? I've found the latter to be an awesomely powerful tool, but I'm in the market for something smaller that doesn't come bundled with a full IDE.

This is a reversible debugger, it records all the state needed to run your program backwards in time from a breakpoint so you can see find where a variable assignment went wrong.

You might want to try out the standard Python stdlib command-line debugger called pdb first, once you get used to that try this.

Title should probably have "for Python" appended for clarity.

Thanks, we updated the title.