Per popular demand, we renamed this to "DevTools Language Components" to avoid the confusion with Language Servers for IDEs.
cheers, Benedikt On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 8:51:06 AM UTC+2, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > > 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 > > bme...@chromium.org <javascript:> > > 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 v8-dev@googlegroups.com 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 v8-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/1273455f-0012-4e99-bec9-fe9643d9ee4e%40chromium.org.
