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IRHydra is awesome, but there is still a lot more friction to using it compared to the built in dev tools. You have to run v8 with special flags and upload file
by jwmerrill 12y ago
IRHydra is awesome, but there is still a lot more friction to using it compared to the built in dev tools. You have to run v8 with special flags and upload files to a web page. In some ways, this is still quite simple compared to getting rolling with debugger/disassembler tools for many other languages/environments.
But imagine a workflow where I'm profiling my real application in the browser, and I see that some function comes up hot. If I could just click its name and get this kind of information, I believe I would do this kind of analysis much more often.
That said, as a person who makes websites, I'm sensitive to the fact that people who claim they would use a feature if you built it won't actually always use the feature when you build it...
- mraleph 12y agoI totally agree with you! I would love to have equivalent functionality built right into Dev Tools. Immediacy is a very important aspect of usability - I would like to inspect a running program without any special movements. > upload files to a web page. Minor clarification: nothing ever leaves your local computer. There is no server component in IRHydra. It's purely your browser that interprets these files.
- jwmerrill 12y ago> nothing ever leaves your local computer. There is no server component in IRHydra. Wow, cool!