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Discussion on: Are you really using JavaScript?

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codelitically_incorrect

"..free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water. unmodified by an admixture; simple or homogeneous."

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Seth Corker

Okay, I take your quote to mean that writing plain JS is optimal because it is free from unnecessary indirection, abstraction and additional build steps. You’re writing JS because that’s what the browser expects and there is less distance between source and output.