Is @babel/core unused and can it be removed?

[cobaltt7]

Your Environment

• Prettier version: 3.3.3
• node version: 22.10.0
• package manager: npm@9
• IDE: VSCode

Describe the bug

@babel/core does not seem to be used at all in the package, and I believe it is unnecessarily adding 21MB / 20 dependencies to the bundle. See the package's dependency graph with and without @babel/core.
I am unfamiliar with Babel, so I apologize if just having it installed is doing something behind the scenes. If not, could @babel/core be removed?

[IanVS]

Good callout. I think this is a holdover from the upstream we forked from. We get the parser from @babel/parser instead of @babel/core, so I believe you're right that we can remove the dependency. Would you like to submit a PR and we can try it out?

[cobaltt7]

Thanks for addressing this! Sorry I wasn't able to make a PR, I've been busy.