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by snek 2728 days ago
If you feel you can come up with a better solution for module syntax ambiguity please feel free.

Over the last three years we (including hundreds of devs like you who come in guns blazing calling us all idiots) haven't been able to come up with something that works better.
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ricardobeat 2727 days ago
That is a self-inflicted problem. Step away from the ambiguity by dropping cross-compatibility as everyone has been begging for.
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through 2727 days ago
Proposing or fixing a bug in a third party product should not affect a web standard. If you want my personal help to assist the NodeJS fix, yeah, I would be good there, but I can’t fix the toxic bikeshed culture that you obviously enjoy. MJS is NodeJS solution. It is not a web solution.
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through 2727 days ago
You could support .es file types which would work just as well and is more succinct than .mjs, but AFAIK the group won’t because of “branding” issues. Bull. Use .es. Standard semantics for ECMSScript which is the name of the language, no games or pretence.
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