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If you’ve ever debugged your own C++ containers, strings, or hash tables on Linux or macOS, you know the deal: to see anything useful in the debugger, you have to write a custom data formatter. And writing a good data formatter is genuinely painful. Often, the formatter ends up longer and harder to follow than the class it’s supposed to explain.
Starting in Rider 2026.2, you no longer have to. Natvis now works on Linux and macOS, not just Windows. You describe how your type should look in a few lines of XML, and Rider’s debugger does the rest.
