How Retro Gamers Solved Time-Travel Debugging in 1995 (And Why Your Enterprise Debugger Still Can’t)

Or: How to Speedrun Your Bugfix

A Tale of Two Debuggers

Scene 1: A modern enterprise developer in 2025, debugging a critical SAP integration. “If only I could go back in time and see what happened,” they sigh, adding another log statement.

Scene 2: A 14-year-old in 2005, playing Super Mario on ZSNES. They press F1 to save state, die horribly, press F3 to load state, try a different approach. “Cool,” they say, taking it completely for granted.

Welcome to the upside-down world where teenage gamers have better debugging tools than Fortune 500 companies.

TL;DR: github/ysichov/Smart-Debugger

https://github.com/ysichov/Smart-Debugger

 

​ Or: How to Speedrun Your BugfixA Tale of Two DebuggersScene 1: A modern enterprise developer in 2025, debugging a critical SAP integration. “If only I could go back in time and see what happened,” they sigh, adding another log statement.Scene 2: A 14-year-old in 2005, playing Super Mario on ZSNES. They press F1 to save state, die horribly, press F3 to load state, try a different approach. “Cool,” they say, taking it completely for granted.Welcome to the upside-down world where teenage gamers have better debugging tools than Fortune 500 companies.TL;DR: github/ysichov/Smart-Debuggerhttps://github.com/ysichov/Smart-Debugger   Read More Technology Blog Posts by Members articles 

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