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Re:There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript by packet on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @09:19PM (#3402278)
This makes it no different from most programming languages. De-obfuscated code still takes a ton of work when you've lost all variable names, comments, and formatting.
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Re:There is No Such Thing as Proprietary Client-side JavaScript by bad_user on Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:26AM (#3403890)
Except most client-side applications are distributed in binary form. Grokking obfuscated assembly language is an order of magnitude harder than doing the same thing with Javascript.
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