Stepping code in the frontend

Nico can give you details, but more or less, there's an interpreter - so once you begin stepping, you are not in fact running the compiled code, but interpreter tries to simulate it.

Sebastian Sastre wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> anyone can explain the general idea of how the stepper debugger works?
> how it can /step/ Amber code?
>
> What I'm trying to understand is if I can use that same Amber feature
> to make something that is not the debugger but it needs to "wait"
> until it can continue executing code and returning the corresponding
> object.
>
> It doesn't seem to be using generators and yield and it still creates
> the "wait" experience until you proceed or step over a message send.
>
> Given that javascript doesn't have semaphores, how it can even do that?
>
> And congratulations in advance in having achieved that level of awesome
>
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