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by Kototama 5038 days ago
Maybe that's where source maps come handy?

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
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eckyptang 5038 days ago
This sounds like a solution to a problem that probably shouldn't exist because there is a solution that shouldn't exist to start with which has caused a problem that doesn't need to occur.

The slightly overbearing complexity of the solution matches the linguistic complexity of the statement above :)

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randomfool 5038 days ago
I don't see how these are significantly different than .PDBs which allow Windows developers to step through their source code when debugging compiled binaries.
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eckyptang 5037 days ago
It is similar to PDB files, which is fine but that is not the issue. The issue is that the abstraction is criminally tall. We're talking a tower of:

Process: C# --(compiler)--> Js --(parser)--> IL --(compiler)--> machine code/interpreter.

Type conversions: Static --> dynamic --> static --> none.

That's just too much to go wrong in my mind. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

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dmethvin 5038 days ago
They do come in handy, if only they were supported everywhere. Right now it's just Chrome and a small number of tools.
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