Comments also are a bit tricky to preserve when programatically modifying data structures, so a destructive minifier approach makes sense. Although it's very Ja

Comments also are a bit tricky to preserve when programatically modifying data structures, so a destructive minifier approach makes sense. Although it's very Javascript, "let's make another utility you now need". Crockford probably didn't think it would take off like it did, but with hindsight comments would have been the pragmatic choice IMO.