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Binary AST proposal for ECMAScript

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Flattening ASTs and other compiler data structures | Jul 2023
There was some work on having flattened JS as bytecode. It never got much adoption but I believe it would have made the web a lot more efficient.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-binary-ast

First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript | Mar 2022
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Iā€™d say WASM is the low level compilation target for JavaScript runtimes.

There is also a proposal for directly shipping ASTs instead of JavaScript source files for performance improvements [0].

[0]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-binary-ast
WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? | Jan 2022
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There is a proposal from Mozilla/Facebook for a binary JS format.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-binary-ast