Feature: List of recommended debugging tools added to Contributing.md

[thearchivalone]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not a problem, just a simple piece of feedback that could help with future contributions and contributors.

Describe the solution you'd like

Having a list of tools you’d like contributors to use to help with debugging code and communicating findings with you (as the maintainer) would be a nice addition. These don’t have to be a hard requirement but would be useful nonetheless. So far, communication has been wonderful in the short time I’ve been here, but I’d definitely use a list like this and learn the tools where needed.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Open to alternatives. Not sure what would be a different way to improve this aspect.

Additional context

Communication is always big for me. Having simple accessible documentation related to it can make a difference with contributions.

[thearchivalone]

Here's my current main toolset:

• debugging: valgrind, gdb, ldd, nm, and readelf for checking binaries and libraries for inconsistencies (most are built into FreeBSD)
• code editing: neovim (custom fork of vim with a heavy focus on performance and improved scripting and plugin support) with some light lsp's running (language server protocol - some of them are ported from Visual Studio Code)
• firefox - for obsessively reading documentation and googling

My background is graphics design but I've been actively involved in the Linux and BSD spheres for about 15 years now and have been running a hobbyist BSD server cluster for about 4. Not a professional in any fields but know how to script, work with build tools, and work with various graphics software. Programming and debugging code are not my main forte but I have always had a desire to port software, especially in the game development sphere.

Ironically, outside of my graphics softwares, I use mostly minimalistic, command line or terminal ui based applications and then just tile a bunch of tiny terminal windows around the screen and cycle through them with the keyboard.

[eprikazchikov]

I'm using QtCreator on all platforms and never thought about tool sets =)