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I think that’s the point. No plugin system. Compare Babel to Bublé or even Sucrase for example: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase https://github.com/alangp

• ratww 6y ago
  A counterpoint: Babel's extensibility doesn't matter in practice at all, other than helping the Babel team organize their code. Pretty much every new ES6 feature required parser and babel-core changes just to be able to be used. Example: a lot of changes that only worked in Babel 7 (that was on Beta for months) were not possible in Babel 6, and so on for previous versions. A plugin was not enough: you also needed parser/core changes. Other than for novel non-standard features (like code substitution), plugins are not exactly that powerful, and even things like that are frowned upon in most environments, as 99.9% of people just want ES6 features.
• seanwilson 6y ago
  > Preparing data for external use always takes extra effort. How much effort are you really talking about for a static site though? Can you be specific? Most sites I've worked on are processing a modest number of Markdown + JSON files, where sometimes these are pulled in from an external URL. Why does any of this require anything particularly complicated or anything that could justify a big performance hit? > You can build an efficient self-contained tool in JavaScript too. Does one exist for static site generators though?