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by flohofwoe 105 days ago
> Google has done almost nothing to their DWARF debugging tooling since it was introduced as beta a few years ago

WASM DWARF debugging works perfectly fine though?

The 'debugger half' just moved from Chrome into a VSCode debug adapter extension where debugging is much more comfortable than in the browser:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...

I use that all the time when working on web-platform specific code, with this extension WASM debugging in VSCode feels just like native debugging (it actually feels snappier on macOS than debugging a native macOS exe via LLDB).
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pjmlp 105 days ago
More like it mostly works.
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flohofwoe 105 days ago
...'mostly works' describes pretty much every debugging experience outside Visual Studio. But I really can't complain, I've set up 'F5-debugging' in VSCode, pressing F5 starts a local web server, starts Chrome with the debuggee, and starts a remote debug session in VSCode and stops at the first breakpoint (and interestingly all this happens 'immediately', while debugging a native Cocoa macOS app via LLDB easily takes 5 to 10 seconds until the first breakpoint is reached).

TL;DR: It works just fine (early versions of the DWARF extension had problems catching 'early breakpoints' but that had been fixed towards the end of 2024.

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