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>However, I need to nitpick the author, what he calls compile time, is "compile time" only in the world of frontend development (and in most of the case is not
by MereInterest 7y ago
>However, I need to nitpick the author, what he calls compile time, is "compile time" only in the world of frontend development (and in most of the case is not a compilation step).
I run into that issue with a lot of web frontend terminology. Sometimes, it is harmless, like calling it "tree shaking" instead of the more standard "dead code elimination". Other times, it can cause a large amount of confusion, like with "client-side rendering" and "server-side rendering". In all other contexts, "rendering" refers to the generation of an image. Yet somehow in web development, "rendering" refers to the generation of HTML, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the generating of an image to display to the user.
- Tomte 7y ago"Tree shaking" is standard terminology in Lisp (and possibly Smalltalk?). It's also a narrower term, since DCE is used for standard optimizations in e.g. C that have nothing to do with a heap of objects.