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by dmitriid 2628 days ago
To quote stevebmark [1]

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…we’ve learned not to write code in strings. You’d think this would be a fundamental law of software engineering

Writing code, not strings, means you can do everything to it that you can do to code. You can type check code. You can lint it. You can optimize it, compile it, validate it, syntax highlight it, format it with tools like Prettier, tree shake it…

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511943