I think his point is that browsers don’t run Lisp. The culture of (Emacs) Lisp keeps inspectability front and center. You can look up the source code for every

I think his point is that browsers don’t run Lisp. The culture of (Emacs) Lisp keeps inspectability front and center. You can look up the source code for every function with C-h f and every keybinding with C-h k. But if Emacs supported JavaScript, the culture of JS, including code obfuscation, would probably come with it too. Or that’s the way that I interpret it.