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0 pointsggregoire8y ago0 comments

I didn't downvoted you but your comment is off topic and kinda wrong.

Off topic because this service is a logging service to log JS errors in production. It's not related at all with how JavaScript handles errors.

Kinda wrong because even in "a reasonable language", you still need to log errors, warnings and other stuffs. It's absolutely not specific to JavaScript. Actually, JavaScript didn't have any serious logging solutions like Sentry, Loggly or RootCause until really recently. It's great to see all these new tools.

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kerkeslager8y ago· 2 in thread

> Off topic because this service is a logging service to log JS errors in production. It's not related at all with how JavaScript handles errors.

Logging errors can be done in <100 lines of JavaScript, so if that were the value added of this service, they would be in trouble.

The value of this service lies more in the ability to replay state so you can debug JavaScript, which is absolutely related to how JavaScript handles errors. If JavaScript handled errors better, this wouldn't be necessary.

ggregoireOP8y ago

> Logging errors can be done in <100 lines of JavaScript, so if that were the value added of this service, they would be in trouble.

No it cannot. You need a backend to send and store the logs, a dashboard with some grouping/filtering features to analyze anything, an alerting system to send you daily/weekly emails, user/group/permission management if you don't work alone, and so on.

Don't act like this guy who said Dropbox has no value because it's trivial to make a FTP account online and sync it with your machine.

kerkeslager8y ago

> > Logging errors can be done in <100 lines of JavaScript, so if that were the value added of this service, they would be in trouble.

> No it cannot. You need a backend to send and store the logs, a dashboard with some grouping/filtering features to analyze anything, an alerting system to send you daily/weekly emails, user/group/permission management if you don't work alone, and so on.

That's a pretty big change in scope you've got there.

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