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Assuming that at some point blink will support multiple language VMs, will source maps still be needed (for blink)?

Sorry if this is a naive question!

yeah, if you're running directly on a VM for the language (e.g. JS on a JS engine, Dart on a Dart engine) you wouldn't need source maps for debugging, unless you are using some other tool that is doing source->source transforms for you (e.g. https://github.com/dart-lang/web-ui currently does some dart->dart source transforms). You'd still have source maps for the dart2js output.

When you are expecting Blink to be available to chrome standard builds? A ballpark time-frame?

Edit: just found the answer here, if anyone is interested : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5489111

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