Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by egeozcan 1200 days ago
They test a lot of websites before introducing new methods. Something somewhere may break but it's very unlikely and this pragmatic approach allows progress.

This is also why the language got Array.prorotype.flat instead of flatten (flatten was breaking an old version of a popular library called Mootools): https://developer.chrome.com/blog/smooshgate/