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by koboll 2872 days ago
IE11 does not autoupdate.

Thus it is stuck, frozen in time, a deadweight clinging onto front-end web development.

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Or, viewed another way, IE developers have a stable API surface to work on that isn't a moving target every hour.
Evergreen browsers provide a stable API surface as well, because the APIs are backwards compatible. Adding support for CSS Grid does not break Flexbox or anything else I was already using. It simply gives me another tool.
There's no moving target. You can write your layout with tables like it's 2005 and it'll render just fine in the latest version of firefox/chrome/safari/edge.
What are IE developers?
Web Developers that do enterprise software.