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You don't need a statically-typed or compiled language to have this sort of infrastructure! Julia does something similar for important changes — and it actually runs all the unit tests of all the registered packages.



Heck, an extreme is what I did for Carakan, Opera's last in-house JS VM, where we were running the testsuite of pretty much any notable JS library in 2010 in CI; that caught loads of subtle bugs. (That said, obviously harder to automate, given there's no standard for in-browser testing!)

Far as I'm aware, every browser is running some version of the jQuery testsuite nowadays, though I doubt that's the only third-party library tested in such a way in each browser.




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