Perhaps someone can clue me in, because I'm still at a loss for why there's so much hype built around Require.js.

I develop JS primarily for the frontend, and I use Grunt, a global namespace, and concat (or similar tooling) to piece things together.

Doesn't r.js execute dependency resolution code at run time? Can all references to r.js be fully compiled out? Even a wrapper like Almond seems to leave behind this kind of extra cruft. I don't want any dependency resolution code in the production build, because that's a problem that needs to be solved at compile time.