You&#x27;re right; I over-stated the benefits of tree-shaking. My comment came out of long frustration that so many of the languages and platforms we use don&#x27;t even support tree-shaking, so if we care about binary size, we have to do micro-management of dependencies that the machine should be able to do for us. But you&#x27;re right; the other issues with dependencies remain.<p>About your 10 MB Unicode table example, did you have in mind the ICU data table that&#x27;s included with Chromium and, more recently, all the Electron-based apps?