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I am not really sure that minified JS is any more transparent. IMHO it's not source code by the original definition.



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There's lots of times in my work when I will read minified JS code to debug a stack trace. Using the "Pretty Print" option it's not too bad. So I'm glad it's there.

Also transparency is not just about humans reading it, it's also about automatic scanning of the source, and in some cases automatic modification of the JS (for browser extensions or code analysis or etc). Those are useful things that are drastically harder using WASM.




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