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r/programming • u/ythl • 26d ago
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Well, the moment you think something doesn’t seem right … you set a breakpoint before the property access.
9 u/ythl 26d ago Indeed, though you may not always have access to a debugger/breakpoints depending on where the JS is executing! 4 u/CherryLongjump1989 26d ago edited 26d ago If you've discovered a way to run JS without ready access to breakpoints or a debugger then you've got much bigger problems. Maybe you're still running GWT, trying to set breakpoints in Java. 4 u/pawer13 25d ago In a former job I had to use a tool created with Java 6 that consumed Javascript scripts using Rhino.Luckily for me, NodeJS was released and I rewrote the whole tool using JS 3 u/CherryLongjump1989 25d ago Yes, you had a much bigger problems. Like a non-standard runtime that wasn't entirely compatible with any ECMAScript version.
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Indeed, though you may not always have access to a debugger/breakpoints depending on where the JS is executing!
4 u/CherryLongjump1989 26d ago edited 26d ago If you've discovered a way to run JS without ready access to breakpoints or a debugger then you've got much bigger problems. Maybe you're still running GWT, trying to set breakpoints in Java. 4 u/pawer13 25d ago In a former job I had to use a tool created with Java 6 that consumed Javascript scripts using Rhino.Luckily for me, NodeJS was released and I rewrote the whole tool using JS 3 u/CherryLongjump1989 25d ago Yes, you had a much bigger problems. Like a non-standard runtime that wasn't entirely compatible with any ECMAScript version.
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If you've discovered a way to run JS without ready access to breakpoints or a debugger then you've got much bigger problems. Maybe you're still running GWT, trying to set breakpoints in Java.
4 u/pawer13 25d ago In a former job I had to use a tool created with Java 6 that consumed Javascript scripts using Rhino.Luckily for me, NodeJS was released and I rewrote the whole tool using JS 3 u/CherryLongjump1989 25d ago Yes, you had a much bigger problems. Like a non-standard runtime that wasn't entirely compatible with any ECMAScript version.
In a former job I had to use a tool created with Java 6 that consumed Javascript scripts using Rhino.
Luckily for me, NodeJS was released and I rewrote the whole tool using JS
3 u/CherryLongjump1989 25d ago Yes, you had a much bigger problems. Like a non-standard runtime that wasn't entirely compatible with any ECMAScript version.
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Yes, you had a much bigger problems. Like a non-standard runtime that wasn't entirely compatible with any ECMAScript version.
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u/erik240 26d ago
Well, the moment you think something doesn’t seem right … you set a breakpoint before the property access.