Softcore Debugging

A slightly sexy tour of Xcode’s debugging tools

A work friend told me they had a visceral gut disgust reaction, any time an engineer described some piece of code as “sexy”.

Naturally, I became incredibly diligent about highlighting especially saucy Objective-C method swizzles, or particularly demure protocol extensions.

I am not a good fit for corporate environments.

Today’s Quick Hack is a whistle-stop tour of the myriad tools built into Xcode that help you debug your app in your day-to-day. You’re likely familiar with most, but I hope you’ll spot something novel in our tour of conditional breakpoints, faster LLDB commands, and memory graph traversal.

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