Comment by c22
4 years ago
Like sibling comment elucidates, code-golfing is just using tricks to get the size of a program down without impacting its functionality. This could be as simple as using single-character variable names or something more complicated like including a decompressor that expands some packed code before execution.
If you got the decryption code plus the payload small enough you could theoretically put the whole thing into a data URL (a URL that doesn't link to a remote resource, but contains all the data needed to display a web page). This data url could theoretically then be encoded into QR and accessed entirely locally on anyone's smart device.
> If you got the decryption code plus the payload small enough you could theoretically put the whole thing into a data URL (a URL that doesn't link to a remote resource, but contains all the data needed to display a web page)
This is how the 'secret creator' page works :-)
This used to be called munging
It’s called minification in the JavaScript ecosystem.
Minification may, or may not, involve munging, for example shortening `const foobar = 1;` into `var f = 1;`. This is not always a safe operation, and in some cases you want to disable munging when minifying your code so that you have meaningful component / function names in your stack traces even without sourcemaps.