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You should add another use to it which is exploring live in-memory object graphs of applications. Make some adapter library to allow getting those objects from apps that want to use and then you can fly through the data being processed. For debugging, exploration and education. I'm using a basic version of this idea for debugging: https://github.com/Quiark/overlog


I've thought about this a lot, and `overlog` looks awesome! I appreciate you validating the use case. I've seen a lot of apps that have something like this - either an open socket that runs that allows the app to consume data, or like you mentioned, something that you install via a small library and output something readable. Either one sounds feasible, honestly. I'd love to chat with you about this, maybe see if we can some up with something - it's super useful to have lots of data like this on screen at once!




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