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I remember trying out Delve about a year ago while it was still in its infancy and don't remember there being commands like `goroutines`; I may be wrong. The overall experience wasn't all that good to be honest.

My initial impressions of delve was "Oh it's basically GDB for Go". But seems like the debugger has become more stable and more mature over the years by shipping language specific commands; like `goroutines`.

Yes, the project has gone a long way, as it's being used by what may be the two most prominent development environments for Go (VSCode and Jetbrains Goland).

GDB still has a lot of value if you're working with a non-amd64 architecture or want to dive into cgo parts of a codebase, but Delve is a great addition to your toolbelt!

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