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by kmiroslav 3647 days ago
The size of the Javascript generated by Scala.js alone makes it a non starter for serious projects.
3 comments
premium-concern 3647 days ago
Yeah, these tens of kilobytes of JS next to those ten badly compressed 600kB jpgs are really killing it.
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dastbe 3647 days ago
this isn't a fair comparison. It fails to account for what happens after the files are downloaded, which is where overall js code size has an outsized effect.
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premium-concern 3647 days ago
I think people have been including jQuery just fine for the last decade.
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dastbe 3646 days ago
Yes, but jquery is much smaller than an empty scala.js app. jquery is about 25kb gzipped and minified (the other comment used the raw size) whereas scala js is 45kb for an empty application.
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raquo 3646 days ago
TBH, You don't use scala.js to write hello world apps. I'm much more curious how Scala.js handles a 100Kloc app, but I haven't seen any data on that.
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idobai 3647 days ago
Look at here: https://www.scala-js.org/

"The generated JavaScript is both fast and small, starting from 45kB gzipped for a full application." - 45kB... jQuery is ~80kB.

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dastbe 3645 days ago
jQuery gzipped and minified is 25kb. You're comparing raw to compressed.
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watchxxx 3647 days ago
Cedric, how does a 45KB js file make Scala a non-starter?
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