Re: [GNU ELPA] Realgud version 1.6.0

> From: Rocky Bernstein <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 05:22:27 -0500
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> A while ago, I asked some kind person in the GDB community about the use of GDB/MI and what it would
> take to add it.
> 
> I was discouraged. I learned that MI, with its binary-encoded interface, is also far from optimal. Possibly,
> that's why MI hasn't become more widely adopted. The current thought and hope (well, actually, from a
> decade ago), would be to support more modern remote debugging protocols, such as Microsoft's debug
> protocol, the one that JVM/Eclipse uses, and the one that V8 uses. (There are also the DBGp and Xdebug
> debug protocols)
> 
> The great thing about "standards" is that there are so many to choose from! But one thing is clear: MI isn't a
> popular choice.

GDB supports DAP since v14.