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		eadmund on Sept 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How true hackers write JavaScript > Code is read many more times than it's written, so it doesn't make sense to optimize for fewer keystrokes when typing the code. That's actually probably not the case with JavaScript, so it may indeed make more sense to write it to be more efficient to execute.

smt88 on Sept 5, 2018 [–]

Post-processors do that much better than a human and can also tree-shake. There's no reason for a human to do it.

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