> Nowadays front ends have become impossible to debug by outsiders and the liber...

		kccqzy on March 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from i... > Nowadays front ends have become impossible to debug by outsiders and the liberties taken by JavaScript minifiers are demonstrably not portable. I'm very surprised. What are the ways these JS minifiers are producing unportable JS? Do minifiers just remove white space, shorten variable names, and some may do some dead-code-elimination and inlining? How can JavaScript be non-portable?

Perhaps the Chromium / V8 monoculture is reinforced by mini-fied code?