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  1. its still wild to me how well suited electron is to game development out of the box. you get a stepping debugger (with source maps!) *and* a really nice frame-based profiler -- for free! this tooling is crucial to game development, and building this up from scratch is daunting.
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @ra
      there's also an API to write your own DevTools tabs (they call them "extensions"), so for engine specific stuff like coroutines or the entity component system there is a natural place to put "inspectors" that live alongside the game. too cool! electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/devtools-extension