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Thanks for sharing, I'm very interested in how his ideas might help us understand open source as well! Actually just posted a few chats recently on Illich, the last one speaking on…

Thanks for sharing @andy_adams! Henry here, happy to chat with y'all (Victor and Tony) if you'd want

haha oops I totally wasn't looking at who I commenting with, definitely agree! Thanks!

Yep there's been various PRs for perf over the years but it's never been a focus per-se, and we've had help from various people including the v8 team https://twitter.com/left_pad/s…

Yeah I've had a difficult time figuring out how this was tested: I would recommend using the benchmark at https://github.com/v8/web-tooling-benchmark in the future if it's currentl…

If you can use test262's test suite you should be good, it looks like they are referring to Babel's tests for some of the features? example https://github.com/swc-project/swc/pull/…

We certaintly have PRs around perf https://github.com/babel/babel/labels/area%3A%20perf but we don't have explicit benchmarking for it, and have had work from v8 team and others ht…

Henry here, didn't expect this post to ever be on HN heh! The podcast is a 10 episode series (pre-recorded it over the last 5 months) with my friend Nadia (who isn't religious) I'm…

I also really liked the follow up on the three virtues, in the 2nd State of the Onion ( http://www.wall.org/~larry/onion/onion.html ) > Most of you are familiar with the virtues of…

If dependencies are an issue, I would like to make another package that just bundles it all into 1 package (reuse `babel`) so there aren't any "deps" to install but haven't gotten …

thanks for posting! I personally usually just use https://babeljs.io/repl/build/master !

ESLint post: https://eslint.org/blog/2018/07/postmortem-for-malicious-pac...

Yeah, I did this for my Patreon as well (some people donate less but it's not the majority) https://www.patreon.com/henryzhu (I also quit a few months ago to do open source on Babe…

> I work on tooling for a living, and have in fact tried to contribute back to babel but unfortunately there's so much noise and traffic that there's just as good a chance that you…

> * From my measurements, TypeScript is quite a bit faster than Babel at compiling ES2017 to ES5. From a quick test, TypeScript took 35 seconds and Babel took 140 seconds when run …

Yeah I was hesitant due to not that much support in the community, etc but after hitting the typo-squatting issue over like 5 times (you'd think once would be enough) it just had t…

> From what I understood, there is currently nothing to allow both ES5 and ES6 code to be published and let the bundler choose which one to include. Any ideas on how to change this…

Hmm, sorry it feels that way! I don't use react-native and don't think anyone on the team was informed of that issue - but is it really an issue from Babel itself? I guess in that …

Oh cool, didn't realize someone posted to HN (I haven't been on HN in a while =D)! Open to questions and clarifications (on the actual content of the upcoming release, process, how…

Yep you got that right! Only thing I can think of (since changing the default to be non-spec would be odd) is just warning on larger code size outputs and saying you could try loos…

I answered this on twitter: https://twitter.com/left_pad/status/936721918840983554 And added this option + optimization for v7 https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/master/packages/b…

I'll update the post to give an idea of how it works, thanks!

Yeah, it doesn't doesn't anything that is multi-file like const enums since Babel operates per file. (I work on Babel)

Gave a talk at React Rally that goes over this briefly. https://github.com/hzoo/so-how-does-babel-even-work , and a basic version of the actual Babel transform: http://astexplorer.…