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		parenthesis on Sept 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is the web getting slower? It sounds like what is needed is an `optimising compiler' for the entire front end that would spot patterns like those you mention and rewrite them into something better, and that would tree-shake out unused stuff. Does anything like that exist?

read_if_gay_ on Sept 9, 2020 | [–]

That seems like it's going to work in very specific situations only and/or be extremely hard to implement.

joquarky on Sept 9, 2020 | | [–]

I'm curious if Svelte is headed in this direction.

tjpnz on Sept 9, 2020 | [–]

That strikes me as a heavy handed option given the prevalence of linters and performance tools which can already detect some of these issues.

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