Hey folks, Following up on the prototyping work around Wasm Debugging with LLDB, we're starting to realize that it might not work out to just pull in LLDB combined with DWARF to create an excellent Wasm debugging experience. What we are looking for in the end is a solution, where DevTools is able to debug applications consisting of various JavaScript and WebAssembly parts seamlessly. Based on the current experiments (thanks a lot to the folks that ran the experiments here, which helped a lot to gain a better understanding of the problem space) it seems that full LLDB is always going to assume that *it's driving the car*, when in reality the JavaScript engines debugger has to *drive the car* in order to make the whole thing work across language barriers.
Following along this thought we realized that for modern JavaScript we already have very similar problems to WebAssembly. I.e. the code that the application is written in is usually not the code that the browser engines sees. And the current solution here - which is source maps - is far from sufficient to address this issue. This brought us to consider the idea of language servers, which has been proposed before, as a way to make forward progress here. Some discussions have already happened around this, but I'd like to make sure to include everyone here from the beginning, so I created an initial design proposal ( http://bit.ly/devtools-language-servers), so let's use that as a basis for further discussion. In essence it describes two possible high level solutions how to address the current problem. Please let me know what you think. cheers, Benedikt -- Benedikt Meurer Chromium DevTools TL [email protected] Google Germany GmbH Erika-Mann-Straße 33 80636 München Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Halimah DeLaine Prado Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Falls sie diese fälschlicherweise erhalten haben sollten, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht an jemand anderes weiter, löschen Sie alle Kopien und Anhänge davon und lassen Sie mich bitte wissen, dass die E-Mail an die falsche Person gesendet wurde. This e-mail is confidential. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it has gone to the wrong person. -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/CAGowDna6zOniX3Svj3z8AJHzPo%3DOgumGkOPLBNdieqjsPTWrHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
