hlude

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   by hlude 4mo ago

   Thanks! Not yet, the hard part isn't reading the code, it's simulating how it runs. That logic is built specifically around JavaScript such as closures, async/await, the event loop, so another language means a new interpreter
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   by hlude 4mo ago

   I built this because I needed to see what the JavaScript engine was physically doing how the call stack fills, how the heap mutates, what actually happens when await suspends a function. Existing tools showed me the logical flow but not the
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   by hlude 4mo ago

   Philip Roberts' JSConf talk is one of the best technical explainers I've ever heard, it was a direct inspiration for the async module specifically. The main gap Vivix fills is async/await, that talk predates modern async patt
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   by hlude 4mo ago

   Not currently, Vivix is focused on helping developers and learners understand JavaScript execution at the instruction level: call stack, heap, async/await and more. Visualizing coding-agent output would be interesting though
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   Show HN: Vivix – See inside JavaScript as it executes (open source)(vivix.dev)

   4 points by hlude 4mo ago|7 comments
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   by hlude 4mo ago

   The shell DSL is what made me want to try Janet