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		Aeolun on Nov 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full ti... > I don't know how you could implement such a thing (with good ergonomics) without a template language. Parse Javascript? I don’t see how it would be any different, except you have more constructs to work through.

tshaddox on Nov 12, 2021 [–]

The "more constructs to work through" is precisely the problem. Without restricting JavaScript to some subset, you're not going to be able to statically determine the behavior of any given program.

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