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Bun is MIT licensed, meaning any derivatives aren't required to give you source code. But it's more about the principle. People do the same thing in web pages and give you minified gibberish "to save bandwidth". Meanwhile the hot garbage is still a megabyte of JS. Maybe cut some of the bloat and keep the human-readable text which is known to be efficiently compressed by ordinary lossless compression algorithms.


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