Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo

Re:Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo by hackcasual on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:40PM (#14413273)

In some cases its due to how new WASM is and the fact that nothing beyond a bare bones debugger experience was considered needed for the MVP. I'm not sure WASM is worse than the general state of web source availability. At least strict typing gives more hints about the underlying code in a disassembly.

That said, WASM may make things better in the future at least when it comes true open source. It's a pretty clean output target, making things like verified builds a possible extension.

Once better debugging support lands, sites can opt in to providing fully mapped output->source code as part of the debug metadata allowing a functional view source.

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Re:Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo by SquareWheel on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:34AM (#14415661)

Good information, thanks.

I was hoping that mapping data would be an inherit trait of WebAssembly, as I too prefer how open source frontend languages are.

I'm very excited for WebAssembly, but I would hate to lose the ability to easily dissect what's running on our machines. Even with minification this is still somewhat possible.

At the very least, I hope browser vendors improve dev tools for reading wasm files in the future.

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