@glyph I've had success debugging with debugpy and vscode. (debugpy: https://github.com/microsoft/debugpy ) I believe it was created for debugging functionality in vscode, but it uses an open protocol that other tools have been built to support as well, (though I haven't tried any of them.)
Tools that support the Debug Adapter Protocol are listed on this webpage: https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
@jdaraisJeremiah I tried to set up `dap-mode` as a frontend to this, and, as if to help me prove my point, zero docs were provided, and once I found a function to run from some blog posts, I got it to emit the error message "Failed to connect to localhost:49611 with error message make client process failed: Connection refused, :name, Python :: Run file (buffer), :buffer, nil, :host, localhost, :service, 49611, :nowait, nil, :noquery, nil, :tls-parameters, nil, :coding, no-conversion" 999 times
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