Sy Brand's post opens a series on writing a Linux debugger in C++

What happened and what to do

Sy Brand's post, published on October 29, 2026, opens a series on how to write a debugger for Linux. The first part covers setting up a C++ project and shows how this kind of tool is built on Linux, with a focus on process control and the internal mechanisms of debugging.

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