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Improve rendering of Uint8List (and friends) in the debugger #4213

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final a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
final b = Uint8List.fromList(a);
final c = Uint16List.fromList(a)

List a looks like a list, but the others do not:

Screenshot 2022-10-11 at 14 36 05

In the VM Service traffic, we can see the item has a length: 6 so we might be able to present it the same as a standard List:

Screenshot 2022-10-11 at 14 39 53

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