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This is missing a discussion of debugging. I don't think any of the emscripten/whatever magic has that down yet.

• zeckalpha 14y ago
  Source maps. Soon.
  • azakai 14y ago
    Definitely source maps. They should basically let stuff compiled to JS be as easy to debug as stuff compiled to x86. But JavaScript actually has some advantages for debugging. The generated code is much more readable than x86 or ARM, and it's trivial to instrument code while debugging, http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/debugging-javascript-is-awesome.html http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/06/debugging-javascript-is-...
  • skybrian 14y ago
    Source maps are a partial solution. We also need a way to translate the data (fields and data structures) back to its source representation.
    • zeckalpha 14y ago
      Isn't that part of source maps?
      • skybrian 14y ago
        Nope. It's just about mapping JavaScript code back to source files. We'll need to come up with another standard for data.