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Business incentives like supporting Internet Explorer for clients $$$?

• Androider 6y ago
  Obfuscation. If web app companies could, they'd send your browser a binary instead of HTML and JS.
  • hinkley 6y ago
    wasm will give them everything they want in that department.
  • uryga 6y ago
    isn't minification good enough at obfuscating the code? what does CommonJS add here? (that's a legit question – i've sifted through webpacked JS a few times, and it mostly just added a bunch of (function(module, require, ...) { <your module here> })(...) around the code. tedious to read, but not much in the way obfuscation) and i guess if ES Modules turned out to be more performant (bc the module stuff is handled by native browser code, or maybe some HTTP/2 magic with loading), that could be an incentive for adoption
    • RyanGoosling 6y ago
      I've combed through minified JS a number of times. Not enough if you want to prevent someone from going through your shit.