1 min readDec 22, 2015
“Tree shaking” is a description of a particular method of DCE. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A square is a rectangle;
A rectangle isn’t a square?
For precision, I would probably say “Tree shaking is an approach to Dead Code Elimination that …”
“But they are in fact different things” is saying a rectangle isn’t a square. imho, of course.