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Array.prototype.flatten not Web-compatible because of old versions of MooTools (github.com)
11 points by monssoen 3021 days ago
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You'd think that this was an April Fool's joke. I hope that there are enough sensible members on the committee to reign in the emotional immaturity of their younger members.
High level TL;DR:

A new JavaScript spec is proposing adding a flatten() method to Arrays. An old JavaScript library that some websites use however also uses a flatten() method on arrays, and browsers supporting the new spec would cause those old websites to break.