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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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Honestly I'm better off this way, personally. At least javascript is text, and very often readable after pretty printing and debuggabke as a user, I'm not comfortable with loading basically opaque binaries for websites.
Isn't production JavaScript usually minified/obfuscated to make it hard to read?
Also wasm is actually bytecode, which I believe has a 1:1 conversion into a text-based format called wat.
I agree with your main point though, it's kinda creepy when you realise just how much we are expected to allow other people's code to run on our machines.
Somewhat, but often it's still readable. Or maybe I just don't look at it often enough to notice the worse cases..
That's good to be aware of, thanks!