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100ms 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript

Why is it half dead? They only jettisoned the ancient support library, the compiler itself AFAIK remains best in class and has commits on GitHub as of 15 hours ago

fg137 3 months ago [–]

Something as important as https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/issues/2731 that is in ES2022 standard (Yes, released near 4 years ago) is still not implemented. Lots of new code don't compile with it.

It has become a liability in the build process and people are getting rid of it.

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