The rough user goal is to provide an alternate UI ...
# thinking-togetherj
Jason Laster
09/20/2019, 9:38 PMThe rough user goal is to provide an alternate UI for the step buttons, that encourages exploration over precise continue to here operations.
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Garth Goldwater
09/21/2019, 12:52 AMthis may be a completely off-topic point but if (in general) prefer replay UI’s to be superimposed over the thing i’m trying to replay (in this case, the webpage)
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Jason Laster
09/21/2019, 4:30 AMOh interesting. Would you want the player to be an overlay?
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Don Abrams
09/21/2019, 6:07 AMFor visualizing and exploring call stacks, I think I’d really like a flame chart (with “pauses” filtered out)
Don Abrams
09/21/2019, 6:08 AM(Especially if you could highlight scopes that aren’t eligible for GC)
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Garth Goldwater
09/21/2019, 9:52 PMmy honest preference would be an overlay in the style of the track controller on eg a youtube video
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Jason Laster
09/22/2019, 3:20 AM@Don Abrams for sure. I'd love to design a flame chart UI with more visual real estate, display names, arguments
Jason Laster
09/22/2019, 3:22 AMa bit like seymour's macro ui -- https://harc.github.io/seymour-live2017/
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Jason Laster
09/22/2019, 3:23 AM@Garth Goldwater what goals would you hope to achieve with a video style player? i think our top timeline could be more track like...
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wtaysom
09/24/2019, 6:40 AMAll depends on the level of detail you want. I find most imperative programming errors come from some supposed invariant becoming invalid. So the two main operations you want are:
(1) after this line of code executes, it all goes to hell (often with an exception but not always) so let's step back from here, and
(2)
wtaysom
09/24/2019, 6:40 AM(Darn return...)
wtaysom
09/24/2019, 6:41 AMthe value of this instance variable is wrong, how did that happen, or why didn't it get updated by some other thing.
wtaysom
09/24/2019, 6:43 AMEven the thorniest bugs I see end up being a few iterations between (1) and (2). Following a stack (1) leads to a bad variable value (2) caused by a by a stack (1) with another bad variable (2) mistakenly passed from over here (1).
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