Re: [squeak-dev] Using V8 for other languagesDan wrote:

>One thing is clear:  JavaScript *is* the assembly language of the
> Internet, at least for a few years now.

For people working at assembly(low) level a very good debugger
 is the most important tool.
Any reference to a good debugger for Javascript will be appreciated.
Are the reflexive capabilities of the V8 platform enough to build
 a smalltalk-like debugger? (e.g. reflexion and change of the
 running stack w/change of object shape & behavior during debuggin)

Ale.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan Ingalls 
  To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Using V8 for other languages


  David Griswold <david.griswold.256 at gmail.com>  wrote...

      a.. Given who the developers are, and with Google behind it, it will be the fastest JavaScript VM for a long time to come.


  There's no doubt that V8 puts us on a new plateau, and the V8 team is good, and that the further attention being put on multiprocessing and security are critical.  However VMs are not black magic, and you might be interested to read some comparisons with TraceMonkey...


          http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/tracemonkey_update.html


  One thing is clear:  JavaScript *is* the assembly language of the Internet, at least for a few years now.


          - Dan


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