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		o11c 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site ... Tree-shaking really only works for languages that are designed to be tree-shakable, which no web language is.

typpilol 68 days ago [–]

Type/JavaScript are extremely tree shakable if using esm.. what makes you think it's not?

o11c 68 days ago | [–]

Only at the most crude level. Ever heard of "virtual functions"?

typpilol 67 days ago | | [–]

Runtime polymorphism is great but I wouldn't consider that to be tree shaking.

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