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> The number of people who know compilers well enough to know how to jam them somewhere inappropriate is probably...startingly low, too. Nah, (almost) everyone
by ElectricalUnion 4y ago
> The number of people who know compilers well enough to know how to jam them somewhere inappropriate is probably...startingly low, too.
Nah, (almost) everyone that don't have a clue what they're doing does this for every app, be it required or not; it's however called "Babel" or "Webpack" because "compiler" is "scary".
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe discussion is really not about people using compilers on their build systems.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agowebpack is a very customizable compiler; my take is that once you're deep enough into --config (supposedly only required for non-trivial projects, in pratice, almost every JS project I saw requires extensive webpack mangling to work) you're building your own custom compiler with custom quirks for your project.