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I have the same problem with "tree shaking". Granted it's not a bastardization of an established term, but it's a reinvention and confounding of terms we alread

by avaer 9y ago

I have the same problem with "tree shaking". Granted it's not a bastardization of an established term, but it's a reinvention and confounding of terms we already had. I guess the one thing to take away from this is that js tool authors and c tool authors don't talk to each other enough.

tonyarkles 9y ago
As a curiosity, and I say this as someone who has a significant C background, what would you call a similar concept in C? I know that it happens (having been burned by missing symbol errors due to incorrect link ordering), but I don't actually know what it's called.
- bjterry 9y ago
  Typically it would be called dead-code elimination. The creator of rollup who popularized the term tree-shaking disagrees that they are the same, but his argument is not super compelling (not that it really matters either way). https://medium.com/@Rich_Harris/tree-shaking-versus-dead-code-elimination-d3765df85c80 https://medium.com/@Rich_Harris/tree-shaking-versus-dead-cod...