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Source map is totally optional! It provides zero help in understanding asm.js or minified JS. I see what you're saying about binaries being opaque blobs, but I just don't see how that's different from asm.js or minified JS.

Kinda sounds like you're trolling pcwalton TBH: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/872151997473972224

I approve ;-)

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I understand source maps are optional...not getting the exclamation point. That's exactly my point, it's optional and therefore not much help.

Minified js isn't (so far) a barrier for me. Prettify and a short bit of debug clears things up. Chrome even helps[1]. I have not yet run into asm.js used for anything in my field.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/java...

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