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Tree-shaking really only works for languages that are designed to be tree-shakable, which no web language is.




Type/JavaScript are extremely tree shakable if using esm.. what makes you think it's not?

Only at the most crude level. Ever heard of "virtual functions"?

Runtime polymorphism is great but I wouldn't consider that to be tree shaking.



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