[AnthonyMouse]

> The user was never going to view that stack trace anyway

Speak for yourself.

The ability to understand and affect what's going on in your own user agent is important not just to users having control over their own devices, it changes the social fabric. You can't get interested in how something works because to you it's an opaque blob whose priests have declared you unworthy. Curiosity suppressed. That's bad for the kids.

[janderland]

Bun is open source, right? If you want the debug symbols then build them. This feature is for the users who don’t want to debug Bun and simply submit a comprehensive report, which will be the majority of users.

[AnthonyMouse]

Bun is MIT licensed, meaning any derivatives aren't required to give you source code. But it's more about the principle. People do the same thing in web pages and give you minified gibberish "to save bandwidth". Meanwhile the hot garbage is still a megabyte of JS. Maybe cut some of the bloat and keep the human-readable text which is known to be efficiently compressed by ordinary lossless compression algorithms.

[raziel2p]

if you want that you can always just run the application with debug symbols, no?

[AnthonyMouse]

The user is all too often not provided with debug symbols.