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Yeah, but what on earth is the alternative? Mobile gui's without javascript would be horrendous. On top of that, that's the platform you're minifying for. I d
by NotATroll 7y ago
Yeah, but what on earth is the alternative?
Mobile gui's without javascript would be horrendous. On top of that, that's the platform you're minifying for.
I don't minify javascript to hide what's running, I minify it because a 3KB file is a lot less to download than a 12KB file.
So what? You design an entirely new language that:
A) Can't be minified (How?)
B) Has to be open source
C) Can't be obfuscated (virtually impossible to prevent)
I'm sorry, but the stance is kinda dumb.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoI don't think that there is anything necessarily wrong with it. I was just pushing back on the idea that just because Javascript is distributed in source form, that it isn't effectively the same thing as a compiled binary to the end user.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoYou can serve minified JS, but you should also provide the source code. Doesn't need to be loaded directly, it can be a link on the website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LibreJS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_LibreJS