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 = <tt>js::dbg2</tt>: JavaScript Debugging Interface, v2 =
-We'd like to improve the Mozilla platform's debugging facilities, for a number of reasons:
+We'd like to improve the Mozilla platform's debugging facilities.
-* Beyond debuggers, we want to encourage the creation of other sorts of monitoring and manipulation tools for web code; "watching programs run" is a broad charge. Think [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace DTrace] and [http://sourceware.org/systemtap SystemTap].
-* Our JavaScript implementation is changing rapidly; we need to do better than falling back to the bytecode interpreter whenever the debugger is enabled.
-* We need to be able to monitor and debug worker threads.
-* We need to be able to monitor and debug JavaScript running on embedded devices.
-* Now that SpiderMonkey is C++, an interface designed in that language can be more expressive and less error-prone than a C interface.
 = Goals =