i don't hate javascript. i really don't. i'm neutral to positive about it as a language

i have to include that disclaimer because of what i'm going to say in the rest of the post

vscode shipped an update that improves startup time on both desktop and vscode.dev by introducing a name mangling step in their typescript compilation procedure to shorten all the variable names, and all i can think is "clown language"

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@monorail nice that it's faster though, I don't really have a comparison cuz I also got a new work laptop but

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