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by 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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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.