I completely agree with you. You’ll want to remove them anyway. So you’re going to have a script run to strip them. These hackernews developers always act like

I completely agree with you. You’ll want to remove them anyway. So you’re going to have a script run to strip them. These hackernews developers always act like it’s the most blissful thing “If only we could just write JS without running a special transpile command” That’s actually a much worse developer experience. If you’re using any modern frontend technologies, you’ll want to have a dev server running. Using hot module replacement at a bare minimum (where your browser updates the screen without doing a page refresh, instantaneously) Is a much better experience, so you should already be running a dev server anyway if you’re being productive is the point…