Nix wrote half of my debugger

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A few days ago I wrote about Rewind VM, a deterministic VM where every run of a Nix build is a pure function of its inputs, thread schedule included! I have been using it to find, reproduce and solve numerous race conditions in Nix builds, but it’s been making me feel a little crazy. What is this superpower, and why is nobody else using it? The tool has quickly grown a source panel, stack frames, bookmarks, a “Compare” tab, a lot more gdb support, thread lanes, which show who held the CPU at eve

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