>One of things I absolutely despise about the JS community is this obsession with build tools. JS is meant to be a runtime language and the amount of transpiler

>One of things I absolutely despise about the JS community is this obsession with build tools. JS is meant to be a runtime language and the amount of transpilers, minifiers, uglifiers, obfusicationifiers, is absolutely endemic to the messy state of change the language is undergoing. All of it is ultimately to turn JS into a good language. Considering the state where JS started, it's been a heroic amount of effort.