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why would the most compressed version of the AST be code? maybe gzipped code would be close.
"We should store code as ASTs" "Yeah but ASTs are big, we should have a compression format" "But the most compressed form of an AST is code"
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You're missing the point of my tweet, ASTs are a terrible transport format for code if you care about size
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I see your point for specific instances of ASTs. Most can easily be compressed beyond code. However, code is the most readable form of ASTs.
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I don't think it's about readability of the original code, as much as to make it easy to make it readable based on case by case preferences
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I still want that sweet sweet meta-data that ASTs get peppered with.
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Poor some of that `"file":"/root/.npm/yolo.js"` on me
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Link files bruh.
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saying we should store code as ASTs is more so a claim about AST printers than it is about storage.
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at least in my case of course. Others might want an unreadable storage format but I don't get it.
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I don't think it's the code we write today. Take a look at `var a = 1, b = 2`, there's still redundant information in syntax...
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...remove syntax and represent the code with data structures, it may be smaller, like `["var" ["a" "1"] ["b" "2"]]`, in a compressed form.
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