The Technical Journey of Building a PHP Debugger from Scratch
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The Origin I've been working with PHP and Laravel for years. And like every PHP developer, I've been through that classic cycle: install Xdebug, configure xdebug.mode=debug, map paths in PHPStorm, pray that Docker doesn't change the internal network IP, and when it finally works... it's slow. Every request takes seconds longer. But the real problem was never performance. It was setup. I was working on projects running in Docker via Laravel Sail, others on WSL, some with SSH to stagin