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		em-bee 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is It JavaScript? any language where the necessary information is not thrown away when producing a binary. so that means by default languages where the source is distributed have an advantage. but that's still a lot of languages.

5d41402abc4b 3 months ago [–]

>any language where the necessary information is not thrown away when producing a binary

Its only thrown away if you ask the compiler to throw it away. You can always ship a debug build.

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