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Minified javascript isn't really open source either.
by kpcyrd 9y ago
Minified javascript isn't really open source either.
- irrational 9y agoNo, but there are tons of prettifiers that can get minified/obfuscated JS back into a state that it can be read and reasoned about fairly easily. It's not like minifiying/obfuscating JS compiles it into byte code. It's still plain text.
- JeanSebTr 9y agoAs we can use a decompiler with other languages.
- striking 9y agoBarely! It's not far from bytecode in some cases, especially with the advent of asm.js.
- bogomipz 9y agoDo you or anyone else have any recommendations for a good tool to recover minified java script?
- chr1 9y agohttp://jsnice.org http://jsnice.org works well, though misses many oportunities of restoring variable names based on property names which cannot be minified.
- Someone 9y agoNon-minified JavaScript with good comments documenting its behavior isn’t (necessarily) open source either. That you can read the code (or that it doesn’t claim a license) doesn’t make code open source.
- kpcyrd 9y agoSure, but that definition of opensource wasn't implied with "closed source due to wasm".