Has there been discussion around a compiler option that could strip docstrings from output (perhaps useful when :advanced and trying to reduce output size)?

My motivation for asking is the effect https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJS-2407 has on code size

@mfikes I thought docstrings became comments, so stripped no?

Cljs docs are meta not JS code comments

@rarous pretty sure they get compiled into comments, docstring are not runtime meta, just compiler meta

I grepped for the docstring for cljs.core/map and found it in builds/out-adv/core-advanced-test.js, and mistakenly assumed all were appearing. I can see that others like cljs.core/first are present, but not cljs.core/iterate. I'll see if I can sort out what the difference is.

Perhaps it is the result of applying var to some of those Vars or some other suitable explanation.

Yeah, sorry for the noise. The presence of docstrings in the output is explainable by the few places where var is used.

right