I already alluded[1] to the incentives *for the host* to minify their JavaShit, ...

midoridensha · on Aug 10, 2023

I'm not talking about the browser's performance, I'm talking about the network bandwidth. All that extra JS code in every HTTP GET adds up. For a large site serving countless users, it adds up to a lot of bandwidth.

bee_rider · on Aug 10, 2023

Somebody mentioned negligible/deleterious impacts on bandwidth for minified code in that thread, but they seemed to have low certainty. If you happen to have evidence otherwise, it might be informative for them.

mannerheim · on Aug 10, 2023

>JavaShit

Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds.

Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is?

Dalewyn · on Aug 10, 2023

>Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds.

The abuse of JavaScript does not deserve the respect of being called by a proper name.

>Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is?

If you're going to run "compiled" code through an interpreter anyway, is that really compiled code?

mannerheim · on Aug 11, 2023

>In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).