> Imagine someone did that in a codebase that you had to take over ! This is typically done at build time, so there's no or little impact to developers writing

> Imagine someone did that in a codebase that you had to take over ! This is typically done at build time, so there's no or little impact to developers writing code. Minification is the frontend equivilent to compiling code. We typically don't think of building a Go program as 'obfuscating' it when compiling it down to machine code even though the resulting artefact is harder to read than the original source code.