C# / .NET support

[JvE-iO]

I just took the survey and unfortunately there was no option to choose C# or .NET.
Is this due to a fundamental architectural limitiation?

[alehander92]

Hey @JvE-iO ! Great question. Our company uses .NET, so there is certainly interest from at least some people in that. One of our engineers has even worked on his own kind of specific .NET recording software, and IIRC there is not really a fundamental architectural limitation. One issue is that the .NET runtime uses JIT a lot, and supporting instrumentation/tracking of JIT-ted code is not easy, so those cases are one of the hardest for us to support currently. If one turns off the JIT for a debugging scenario, this might make it easier, but I am not sure how useful would this be. For now we're focused on natively compiled(AOT) languages and simpler VM-s(interpreters). C# has an AOT compiler now, but I assume it's not yet as universal as the VM.
In any cases, if you share more about your workflow it can help!

[JvE-iO]

As a .NET developer I'm always on the lookout for tooling that may improve my professional life.
As a hobbyist working on the Spice86 emulator/debugger/RE tool, I have an interest in similar/related technologies.

For work I'd imagine having a recording run in CI of the integration test suite could greatly speed up tackling flaky tests and debugging failures.
Using source code to try to trace back the source of a variable value is always tedious and error prone. Automating that in any way would be helpful.

For now I'll just keep an eye on the project. Good luck!