[jmspring]

Willing to take the rep hit...

Is HN really so focused on front end that this particular topic finds itself rapidly at the top of news feed and staying there for an extended amount of time?

Has there been a recent poll about topics active HN viewers deem as important? If it really is this JS heavy, that is intriguing.

[etherealG]

I think the core idea here is beyond the javascript it's implemented in. I've never seen a debugger that can do this kind of async debugging before anywhere.

Don't you think it's more novel than being some trick only relevant to front end web development work?

[NickPollard]

At the ScalaX conference last year, someone demoed the Scala plugin for Eclipse debugging actor messages asynchronously, so you can breakpoint on receiving a message, then see the callstack that generated that message on a different actor, and in fact follow back through all the messages leading up to that. Very cool, though I haven't tried it in production yet (I'm currently using IntelliJ for Scala)

[BrandonLive]

You must not use Visual Studio (or IE). Not only do both of those already do this for JS, but VS does the same thing for C++ and C#.

[coldtea]

>Has there been a recent poll about topics active HN viewers deem as important?

There's an ongoing, full-time poll, based on voting up posts.

[phektus]

Well, HN itself is a poll.

[jmspring]

True. The frontend/js focus is a tad disappointing considering how many other technologies are involved in ramping up/running most companies.

[saraid216]

So, submit articles for those technologies? I'd wager that most of the people who use those technologies no longer find HN to be a useful source of news; I've noticed that a lot of coworkers are disdainful of HN now.

[Cthulhu_]

But one could argue that the front-end is one of the most important factors of said companies.

Anyway. HN is a voting system, if people like front-end topics they will upvote it.

[EC1]

I don't understand your concern. Skip the thread if it has no relevance to you.