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by kpcyrd 3111 days ago
Minified javascript isn't really open source either.
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Someone 3111 days ago
Non-minified JavaScript with good comments documenting its behavior isn’t (necessarily) open source either.

That you can read the code (or that it doesn’t claim a license) doesn’t make code open source.

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kpcyrd 3111 days ago
Sure, but that definition of opensource wasn't implied with "closed source due to wasm".
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irrational 3111 days ago
No, but there are tons of prettifiers that can get minified/obfuscated JS back into a state that it can be read and reasoned about fairly easily. It's not like minifiying/obfuscating JS compiles it into byte code. It's still plain text.
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JeanSebTr 3111 days ago
As we can use a decompiler with other languages.
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striking 3111 days ago
Barely! It's not far from bytecode in some cases, especially with the advent of asm.js.
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bogomipz 3111 days ago
Do you or anyone else have any recommendations for a good tool to recover minified java script?
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chr1 3111 days ago
http://jsnice.org works well, though misses many oportunities of restoring variable names based on property names which cannot be minified.
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