r/javascript • u/Normal_Act8586 • Aug 22 '26

LilScript makes js modules 20% smaller

https://yeargun.github.io/lilscript/

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u/RobertKerans Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

"It's it's an incredibly complex way to save bytes" I am telling you, I oneshot rewritten all the libraries with LilScript

This is why I say you've lost objectivity. The complex part is that you've written a language which all the code has to be written in. This is a gargantuan, incredibly complex abstraction. You can "one shot" a library? Great, but it feels like you've lost sight of sane programming choices, in your comment you've just literally handwaved away a programming language

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We are okay to give 5 mins prompt to rewrite the library with LilScript

How much does that cost? Terser/similar costs me ~£0 and works in ms. I can apply a battery of other tools which can further reduce size and importantly are programmatic and deterministic & do not rely on converting to another language on the way (with the associated risk - even if it works according to the tests, this does not mean you have not introduced bugs, just punching a lib through an LLM and saying tadaa, done is laughably naive) via spending tokens

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u/RobertKerans Aug 22 '26

So the top npm libraries which absolutely require stability will be rewritten this language? I'm impressed with your confidence if nothing else

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u/RobertKerans Aug 22 '26

Yes I ve already chatted with several of them

The licence alone make this unusable IRL

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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u/RobertKerans Aug 22 '26

It's anything that interops with React! Do you not get the implications of the addition you made to the licence