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by lemper 977 days ago
> The this prefix is mandatory for every instance property, which increases code bloat.

what does "bloat" mean in this sentence? people use "bloat" liberally nowadays.

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The author might have meant “boilerplate.”
They mean bloat as in source code bloat as in the source is larger because you have to prefix every method call with “this.”

It’s… a take, for sure.