Delve

Delve is ranked #5 of 27 in debuggers on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows.

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Free plan: Yes
Supported languages: Go
Target platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD
Remote debugging: Yes
Conditional breakpoints: Yes
Exception breakpoints: Yes
Time-travel debugging: Yes
Core dump debugging: Yes

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Delve

Purpose: Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language, designed to be simple to invoke and use.
Debugging modes: The command line supports debugging, executing, and testing programs, including headless mode for a separate client.
Debugger controls: Its API supports commands including halt, continue, next, step, and stepout.
Client API: A headless Delve instance exposes an API built on JSON-RPC 1.0, with APIv1 and APIv2 versions.
Editor integrations: The project lists integrations for GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, Vim and Neovim, Visual Studio Code, Emacs, and other editors.
Downloads: Pre-built binaries are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and the project also documents installation with Go.
Supported systems: The FAQ lists Linux on amd64, arm64, and 386, Windows on amd64, and macOS on amd64 as supported combinations.
Architecture limits: The FAQ says other operating systems and architectures are unsupported and have no planned support ETA.
Security: The FAQ warns that headless connections are unauthenticated and allow arbitrary remote code execution, and says not to use them in production.
Release verification: Installation documentation describes verifying release checksums with cosign and sha256sum.
Support: The project says its GitHub issue tracker is for bug reports and directs feature proposals and discussions to the developer mailing list.
License: The repository identifies its license as MIT.
Debugging: It lets users control program execution, evaluate variables, and inspect thread, goroutine, and CPU register state.
Debug commands: Its documented commands include attaching to a running process, debugging or testing a package, executing a precompiled binary, tracing a program, examining a core dump, and replaying an rr trace.

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Best Debuggers in 2026#5 of 27

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Sources

github.com/go-delve/delve· checked 30 Sept 2026
github.com/go-delve/delve/blob/master/Documentatio· checked 30 Sept 2026
github.com/go-delve/delve/blob/master/Documentatio· checked 30 Sept 2026
github.com/go-delve/delve/tree/master/Documentatio· checked 30 Sept 2026
github.com/go-delve/delve/blob/master/Documentatio· checked 30 Sept 2026
github.com/go-delve/delve/blob/master/Documentatio· checked 30 Sept 2026