Post

the latest version of Porffor features ESM support! it not only removes needing a bundler beforehand but also makes compilation much faster as we can split C across modules

just to be clear, porffor can't actually host or run any of these frontend frameworks, can it? 🙂

with bugs it can :)

😅 what I meant is, these are all frontend libraries, which require a frontend your compiler doesn't have any way to actually render a DOM, does it?

well, interesting, although... I'm not sure we need more excuses for every little app to ship a 250 MB bundled browser? 😅 also I'd expect the difference between native and JS to be very marginal for most apps - the DOM is already the bottleneck, JS is doing very little actual work in most apps 😊

I'm not making any claims wrt to that thread other than it is interesting. But I think the idea is that if you are going to ship something Electron-like, yon could compile your JS and therefore *not* include V8, and also *not* include Node, which results in a smaller package.

We can also instrument the code, run app tests, and prune all unused code paths from the output. The tests would need to be good, f.e. with 100% coverage. Easy for AI to maximize coverage with arbitrary code even if the tests aren't great, just for trimming the output.