Being able to choose your target browsers in Babel is a little like -march in a native code compiler!
Browser targeting has the nice property that you can collect popularity metrics to make quantitative decisions too.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
It's funny how webkit-based browsers account an increasingly large proportion of users, but there's no similar trend in JS engines.
The JS implementation space seems to be much more diverse, at least in browsers.
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