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0 pointso11c8mo ago0 comments

Tree-shaking really only works for languages that are designed to be tree-shakable, which no web language is.

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typpilol8mo ago· 2 in thread

Type/JavaScript are extremely tree shakable if using esm.. what makes you think it's not?

o11cOP8mo ago

Only at the most crude level. Ever heard of "virtual functions"?

Runtime polymorphism is great but I wouldn't consider that to be tree shaking.

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