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submitted 9 months ago by LinearArray to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What this shows is how terrible raw JS is, when all of this crap is required to fix all of the edge cases and make things actually work the way it’s supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It only looks like this if you want compression and backwards compatibility. All compiled languages have output that is optimized for those things and not readability, but if you turn off minification and use a modern language target then the compiled typescript code will look almost identical to the original code.