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> The trend started by minifiers like UglifyJS and continued by transpilers like Babel will only accelerate. No, the Babel trend is decelerating thanks to ES6
by floatboth 9y ago
> The trend started by minifiers like UglifyJS and continued by transpilers like Babel will only accelerate.
No, the Babel trend is decelerating thanks to ES6 being supported practically everywhere. Minifiers (based on Babel :D) are still used but they're not that necessary thanks to HTTP compression.
We have a component model with Custom Elements, encapsulation with Shadow DOM, variables (custom properties) in CSS, JavaScript with classes and modules, and HTTP/2 push to deliver these modules without extra roundtrips. The future is more platform, less tooling.