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by danShumway 2387 days ago
Totally agreed -- and I don't think WASM will change any of that.

The good parts of the web in terms of debugging is the separation of concerns -- having separate interfaces for CSS, HTML, network requests, and the DOM, and having each of those interfaces be relatively inspectable.

I am a little worried about frameworks that target WASM spitting everything onto a Canvas, bypassing HTML and CSS (coughQt*cought). That would be a substantial loss for the Open web. But I don't lose any sleep over the idea of replacing Javascript.