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by niedzielski 1559 days ago
I wondered about this as well but speculated that basic compression, either gzip or Brotli, would account for it and, in the case that someone doesn't care about bundling their code, they probably don't care if it has comments (types) in it. If they do care about bundling, even if that is just `cat`, then I think the code is "built" to some extent already.

I would enjoy the flexibility to ship types but personally don't have any need for it. Seems like "boiling the frog" for type-checking in the browsers to me but I personally like the idea of encouraging more typing in native JavaScript.