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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by btown on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:00AM (#37049083)
As I recall, the only minifier that went this far was Closure Compiler [0] - the caveats documented there still apply!

(Fun fact: I believe that Closure Library, and by extension the Closure Compiler, are still used for the Gmail rich text editor! [1])

[0] https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...

[1] https://google.github.io/closure-library/source/closure/goog...

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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by nathell on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:48AM (#37050843)
And ClojureScript.
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Re:Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022) by madeofpalk on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:12PM (#37052352)
ClojureScript, being a completely different language which merely uses Javascript as a compilation target lends itself to significantly different optimisation methods.
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