On 10/17/2022 3:57 PM, William Lugg via Discuss wrote: > So I guess the question is what evidence do I need to provide to > support the need for debugging tools to be added to the code editor?  The biggest problem is not evidence.  It's developer interest.  Everybody working on OpenSCAD is doing it in their spare time, and so they work on problems that interest them, whether for the challenge or because it will help with their own projects. > Alternatively, isn't there a way to integrate a pre-developed open > source IDE into OpenSCAD that would provide all those tools?  I know I > make it sound trivial, but it just seems like an effort to reinvent > the wheel here. Uh... doubtful.  My expectation is that the problem is not the UI, but the connections that would be required to the guts of the execution engine. > Just a thought...don't shoot the newbie.  ;o) No, never.  It's a perfectly reasonable question and request.  But I wouldn't get your hopes up.  I know that I can only devote a relatively small amount of time to OpenSCAD, and there are a fair number of things that I would put before this, and I expect that others are in the same boat.