[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Do you think did they broke JavaScript?
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       Ask HN: Do you think did they broke JavaScript?
        
       coming back to js after a few years I am now facing
       incompatibilities between require(), import(), import as well as
       async function coloring. Are these non-issues or is js really
       falling apart?
        
       Author : singularity2001
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-07-15 22:19 UTC (42 minutes ago)
        
       | programmer_dude wrote:
       | *break
        
       | jdlshore wrote:
       | Not a big deal, no.
        
       | samoit wrote:
       | Javascript is a script language that is being used in areas it
       | should not be. In the context of the browser was ok. Node change
       | the context but not the tool. When I was in the web development
       | area it was horrible, new frameworks every week, every new one
       | trying to fix something that javascript could not do "easily",
       | changes with incompatibilities, etc. When you need another
       | language (aka typescript) to fix (some) of the flaws of it...well
       | it should mean something. I have always thought that javascript
       | is a mess and sad that many developers grow with it.
        
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