In my previous post I introduced Unwinder, a project which implements continuations in JavaScript. What does that have to do with stepping debuggers? Unwinder uses continuations to implement a debugger, since it can reuse the same machinery to pause code at any time.
This post could be titled “Implementing Continuations in JavaScript,” but a lot more people know what a stepping debugger is. Besides, implementing a stepping debugger is a pretty cool use case for this stuff.
If you haven’t read the previous article (which explains in-depth what continuations are and heavily uses stepping debuggers to help explain them), here is a live example of a stepping debugger. You can edit the code, and click on any line to set a breakpoint…
http://jlongster.com/Implementing-Stepping-Debugger-JavaScript
