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He says "it’s easy to debug and make changes" when referring to mobile HTML5 development, but my experiences have been the complete opposite and the only concrete claim he makes to support this is that there's a buggy and slow tool you can use to run Web Inspector against a remote device. It doesn't even look like it has breakpoints. Am I missing some other essential tool that he assumes the reader knows about?

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Weinre is buggy, but it works well enough, and the web inspector does have breakpoints for Javascript. As someone who's spent way more time in web inspector than XCode, I'd say it's easier to debug, but still less powerful than XCode's tools, especially when analyzing performance and timing issues.

I was going to make the same comment. Frankly, I barely find gdb to be adequate for debugging iOS code (lackluster support for Obj C 2.0 properties, etc). The idea of having to debug a significant amount of JS inside of a native app shell without a real debugger gives me chills.

95% of the time, debugging in the browser will get you what you need. Of course, the 5% of time that it doesn't can be really painful.

The big hope is that XCode 4.2 reduces the overhead (i.e. suck less) of Objective-C through LLVM & LLDB's improved debugger, more static checking and automatic reference counting.

Concur, but so far I haven't seen much improvement with 4.1, which, I believe, is also using llvm by default for new projects.

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