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I'm really excited about sweet.js and JS macros in general, but I haven't had a chance to dive into anything yet. The major disadvantage for me though is it add

• Touche 13y ago
  Not necessarily, sweet.js runs in the browser and there is a plugin for Requirejs so it can be transparent to you during development.
• acjohnson55 13y ago
  I think resistance to pre-processing is futile. Most people already use it for minification at the very least. With things like brunch and grunt, pre-processing can be pretty much transparent during development. I actually don't know what sweet.js's sourcemap story is, but potentially transparency could more or less be achieved even during debugging. Maybe we'll eventually even get native JS macro language support!