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I just wrote a bunch of code inside Chrome devtools to do some web scraping. It works pretty well, with a REPL, (overly aggressive) autocomplete, and good integration with the DOM, but it's also limited.

Saving and loading .js files uses a very non-standard flow. The editor is OK but I think basic operations like "find across files" are missing. It's very "canned" and not customizable.

In other words, it feels more like a debugging environment than a programming environment, which I think is basically what they were going for.




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