A look at how we how we cut 20% off the size of VS Code's JavaScript with name mangling.

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Shrinking VS Code with name mangling July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner. We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by 20%. This reduction means less code you need to download and store on disk, it also improves startup time.