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feeling recently that the JavaScript AST in 2016 is like the DOM in 2004: early days with exciting stuff on the horizon.
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@sebmck@mikesherov@thealphanerd i'm new here, but seems like CST : AST :: CSS : DOM. should be in a separate tree that references the AST.
@jedschmidt @mikesherov @thealphanerd when you mutate the AST you need to somehow translate those changes to the CST which is very difficult
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@jedschmidt@mikesherov@thealphanerd basically impossible unless you wrap all AST mutations in APIs which can get really clunky -
@sebmck@mikesherov@thealphanerd i mean, can't you do what CSS does and key off an identifier, or some other form of object identity? - 8 more replies
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