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		ratorx on Oct 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should JavaScript be split into two languages? I’m not sure if it exists, but it definitely seems doable (a regular debugger has to map instructions to lines of code). If the browser starts treating JS as assembly, then there would probably be a greater onus for features like this.

ec109685 on Oct 27, 2024 [–]

That would be nice. Was stepping through some modern react code, and the amount of cruft you see is terrible in the transpiled result.

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