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0 pointsmerb9y ago0 comments

> Though to be fair a "modern" JS dev environment does use a ton of stuff!

Though to be fair a "modern" JS dev environment does use a ton of unnecessary stuff!

I fixed your comment.

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Eh, transpiling ES2015+ to ES5 is not unnecessary if it makes you more productive—Babel is just really big.

Well to be fair, does anyone expect a compiler to be small?

Buble says "Files (940 KB)" but it doesn't do everything Babel does (just a strict subset).

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0 pointsmerb9y ago0 comments

> Though to be fair a "modern" JS dev environment does use a ton of stuff!

Though to be fair a "modern" JS dev environment does use a ton of unnecessary stuff!

I fixed your comment.

Eh, transpiling ES2015+ to ES5 is not unnecessary if it makes you more productive—Babel is just really big.

Well to be fair, does anyone expect a compiler to be small?

Buble says "Files (940 KB)" but it doesn't do everything Babel does (just a strict subset).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse