Re:How true hackers write JavaScript
by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:42AM
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I was that person, and what I meant was that "modern webdev standards" would include modules and features requiring transpilation, which would introduce many dependencies, all of which count into code size (you have to keep track of them mentally).
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Why/where would modules be necessary here? Just because there's a feature now that didn't exist years ago doesn't mean it's the right time & place to use it. The code works as-is, a small refactor to leverage built-in functions to do some of the trickier logic parts would make this code a breeze. There's no need for something like Babel to help out with a small refactor.