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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by NotATroll on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:58PM (#21050819)
Yeah, but what on earth is the alternative?

Mobile gui's without javascript would be horrendous. On top of that, that's the platform you're minifying for.

I don't minify javascript to hide what's running, I minify it because a 3KB file is a lot less to download than a 12KB file.

So what? You design an entirely new language that: A) Can't be minified (How?) B) Has to be open source C) Can't be obfuscated (virtually impossible to prevent)

I'm sorry, but the stance is kinda dumb.

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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by JetSpiegel on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:55PM (#21065541)
You can serve minified JS, but you should also provide the source code. Doesn't need to be loaded directly, it can be a link on the website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LibreJS

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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by rhinoceraptor on Monday September 23, 2019 @02:30PM (#21051950)
I don't think that there is anything necessarily wrong with it. I was just pushing back on the idea that just because Javascript is distributed in source form, that it isn't effectively the same thing as a compiled binary to the end user.
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