Yeah perhaps current JS tools can't do dead code elimination because of the highly dynamic environment? Each module could provide some metadata on what it actua

Yeah perhaps current JS tools can't do dead code elimination because of the highly dynamic environment? Each module could provide some metadata on what it actually needs. I only target JS via cross compilers so I've never dealt with this problem. The small module system ends up requiring a ton of files, which is slow. Incremental builds don't really apply to a clean build server where you are basically doing "git clone ... && make". The actual processing isn't my complaint, just the enormous overhead npm's style imposes. I mentioned grunt since just having that plus uglify or so ends up bringing in 13k files or something.