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    Tell me a good reason to obfuscate js in the first place.
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    Okay, cool, but wherever the code came from, it uses eval, which means someone is an idiot.
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    It's dean edwards packer, purpose is to compress source and not obfuscate.

    That's why you can get the original source back, as opposed to "proper" obfuscators where it will only be similar at best
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    I don’t know what triggers me more, people confusing minification with obfuscation or people using a language which needs minification.
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    the concept of minifying doesn't only apply to js, it's comparable to the strip command for native binaries
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    @devRancid yeah it applies to all interpreted languages.
    And no, it’s not really comparable to the strip command.
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    @devRancid In this case, not really.

    JavaScript is often minified to keep load on the network low while binaries are stripped of debug data and symbols to make, well, debugging them harder.
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    @devRancid using obfuscators to "protect" your oh so valuable coding secrets is an idiotic move even for normal languages in most cases.
    But using it with js, which is supposed to be just a scripting language for glue code, is a completely new level of dumbness.
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