> There's a level of understanding and debugging possible from reading the source without compiling/debugging that's not possible with access only to binaries. I'm a .NET/Windows developer mostly,[...]
I certainly agree with you but the claims of tracing the flow of execution down to the kernel? That's extreme in my opinion. Obviously there are times that's useful but for the majority of developers I can't imagine that's even as frequent as a rare occurrence. At least in my personal experience I only know maybe 2 people in my past experience who could actually do this. I just don't think the majority of developers know how to step outside of a few frameworks or languages.
At least Microsoft released the debug symbols for .Net back in 2012 so you've been able to at least trace through your framework's source for a while now :)
I certainly agree with you but the claims of tracing the flow of execution down to the kernel? That's extreme in my opinion. Obviously there are times that's useful but for the majority of developers I can't imagine that's even as frequent as a rare occurrence. At least in my personal experience I only know maybe 2 people in my past experience who could actually do this. I just don't think the majority of developers know how to step outside of a few frameworks or languages.
At least Microsoft released the debug symbols for .Net back in 2012 so you've been able to at least trace through your framework's source for a while now :)