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1. Axel Rauschmayer Mastodon 5 min later

   @zachleat I was wondering about that! Type stripping could lead to packages such as htm (*) becoming more popular.

   (*) https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 8 min later

      @rauschma and well deserved!!

   2. Olivier Forget Mastodon 3 hr later

      @rauschma @zachleat What is the relation between type stripping and JSX and htm? (Sorry I don't use JSX so I don't know how it's actually implemented.) Is it just the trend of moving away from things that need special transpilers to things that work natively in JS?

      1. Axel Rauschmayer Mastodon 3 hr later

         @teleclimber
         See https://satanacchio.hashnode.dev/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nodejs-type-stripping#heading-features-that-require-configuration

         Rule of thumb: Type stripping only removes type-level syntax. What remains must be valid JS.

2. Rob Anderson Mastodon 1 hr later

   @zachleat lol what would JSX even be with --erasableSyntaxOnly

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @r0b it would be… uh… https://github.com/developit/htm

3. Pelle Wessman Bluesky 2 days later

   Its kind of a slippery slope of Node.js here (prompted by Deno / Bun). By supporting a non-standard file format rather than waiting for eg. github.com/tc39/proposa... they have opened themselves up to requests to support lots of other syntax.

   1. Pelle Wessman Bluesky 2 days later

      Only good part is that its a strict stripping now – else we might have ended up with an equivalent of in-core support for Coffeescript in a couple of years