[nikanj]

I tried doing Advent of Code in Typescript, and spent entirely too many hours googling circular problems like "I can't use type:module because then ts-node can't load .ts files anymore, but if I don't use it, then require-statements are broken, but ...."

I don't even remember the details, but I remember it all feeling very rickety. I'd never push anything that fragile into production, it didn't even survive 25 days of doing small puzzles without constant nursing

[wruza]

Yep, the same experience and conclusions. I'm afraid of using this in production, because chances are some of the major players would say "well, I'll just kick the can down the road", and I will be dependency-deadlocked for all the time it's in the air.

Meanwhile guys like node-fetch and chalk ask us why don't we just adopt ESM.