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The fundamental goal of Phix is to make debugging easier, a whole subject area that does not seem to get the attention it deserves, despite several studies finding that most programmers actually spend between 70 and 90% of their time debugging. (Most of us tend to think that getting just-written code to work is somehow not debugging, but that bloke with a clipboard stood behind you would disagree.)
Since 1.0.0 you can also run (many/most) Phix programs in a browser, by using pwa/p2js (as included in the distro) to transpile the program to JavaScript (plus a bit of standard HTML and CSS). If you see "with javascript_semantics" it means the program has been tested and works fine, both on the (Windows/Linux) desktop and in a browser, but obviously that won't be present on any rosettacode entries that (for instance) use the local file system (although unix_dict() has been added to avoid reading unixdict.txt). In fact, it is worth pointing out that "with js" and deep_copy() have proved ''staggeringly'' effective and nowhere near as painful as first feared. In just a few months (1.0.0 was released in July 2021) I have tested, fixed where necessary, and marked as javascript compatible ''[https://www.rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=phixonline some 450 rosettacode entries]'' for Phix, and only ''[https://www.rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=notonline one tenth]'' of that as incompatible.
==See also==
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