> Tree-shaking is such a bad misnomer. I don't think so. I never considered tree-shaking to refer to the plants, rather the data structure. If you imagine the

> Tree-shaking is such a bad misnomer. I don't think so. I never considered tree-shaking to refer to the plants, rather the data structure. If you imagine the diagram of some source code as a physical object, then shaking it would cause anything unreachable from the root to fall away. I really don't see how reachability analysis is any different. One term just invokes a more spacial sense of reasoning.