Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[PauloPinto]

On Thursday, 17 October 2013 at 07:43:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-10-16 22:55, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> Even *with* developer tools, where would you even start? I 
>> mean, the
>> blank page could have resulted from any one point of about 
>> 5kloc worth
>> of JS initialization code (which BTW dynamically loads in a 
>> whole bunch
>> of other JS code, each of which need to run their own 
>> initialization
>> which includes talking to a remote backend server and 
>> processing the
>> response data, all before anything even gets displayed on the 
>> page --
>> don't ask me why it was designed this way, this is what 
>> happens when you
>> take the browser-as-a-platform concept too far). I think 
>> (relatively)
>> recently Opera's Dragonfly added a feature to break into the 
>> debugger as
>> soon as an error is thrown (rather than only when it's 
>> unhandled), but
>> even that doesn't seem to catch all of the errors.
>
> If you get an error the developer tools will show you where. At 
> least it's a start.


Unless you are developing a f**** hybrid application targeting to 
mobiles.

No debugger there to talk to the corresponding native browser 
widgets. :( :(

--
Paulo