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by smokeyj 2998 days ago
> Because now there's one way instead of everyone bringing their own

In theory. In reality there's everyone bringing their own plus one more.

I think the appeal of JS is that it's a universal runtime, not anything about the language itself. I really wish syntactic changes would be left to transpilation.. because that's what every JS developer is doing anyways.