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"You're going to increase the cost of web software products exponentially if devs can't use propriety javascript." Why?

• 0x6c6f6c 11y ago
  Something something minified. Minifying the Javascript files admittedly reduces the bandwidth of a server, however providing source code for compiled/minified code can still be handled separately, and remove the argument of bandwidth since a small fraction of users care to look at the source itself.
  • jbob2000 11y ago
    The issue isn't minification, the issue is that the code is proprietary, i.e not written by the developer serving you the webpage. Minification is easy to get around - copy & paste into IDE and autoformat. Anyone who cares enough about the source code knows that they can do this.
• jbob2000 11y ago
  Because then they need to write their own version. For some libraries, this would be a huge amount of work. Could you imagine having to write a replacement for jQuery, or any other handy libraries like moment.js or bootstrap?
  • rakoo 11y ago
    None of those libraries are proprietary, so they don't pose any threat. The issue here is no different than with non-browser javascript, or even non-browser anything.