Bruhhh why you use random single character in your variable names in javascript src code? Do you have uglifier installed in your brain?

And a bit of Pascal for magic!

“Uglifier” 😂

@Cyanide there is actually a program for JS sources named uglifier which compresses the source by reducing unnecessary spacing and names.

TBH, I don't get why websites don't use any sort of compression instead. Like, even the simplest zip compression would do marvels for plaintext

@iiii uhm. They do? Like GZIP / Brotli / ...

@IntrusionCM then why do they use the minimizers then? It's pointless with compression.

@24th-Dragon same question

@iiii not really.

Pointless is just the way most of web development takes place.

Thanks to the "super duper" assemble all trash from the universe JS (node/yarn...) most of uglify was to parse and reduce the JS / CSS .... to a less fuckity size.

Some uglifiers go so far and rewrite the JS to remove unneeded code.

Many deployments in web development have - when everything's "linked" together - more than 100 MB in size.

The reduction might seem pointless, but it has its purpose... Thanks to the pointless way of developing

@IntrusionCM I see... But why uglify to such extent that it makes code basically obfuscated?

@iiii because every bit counts. I guess you have never seen an full node dependency tree of a large web application?

@IntrusionCM luckily, no. I have a vow to never ever go into web dev or at least never touch anything related to Javascript: frontend and Node.js backend.

I use single letter var names. other devs understand certain single variable names like i, j, k, x, y, z, a, b, c etc. Esp when using functional programming primitives in JS.

@justamuslimguy i and n is ok, k and v is ok when obj [k] = v , xyz for three dimensions but a,b,c? come on bro. go two letters

@melezorus34 meh, if the variable needs to be described I'll be descriptive, but there's nothing wrong with arr.sort((a,b) => a.count < b.count ? 1 : -1)

@justamuslimguy l and r for left and right?

@melezorus34 that works too. I'm just saying there's a lot of times that it's more expressive to have small variables because the focus is on manipulating any type of data, not necessarily focus on what exactly the data is.

@justamuslimguy I'm not judging, I'm just trying to help you a week after trying to read your code 😂

@iii is it really pointless?

Also what do you mean random character? like for fish1 fish2 etc.. they use fishB fishH etc.. ?

@lopu they replace every variable name and function name with a single character if possible.