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by wruza 938 days ago
Not fun really. I am critical (of everyone involved). We were asked to migrate under a promise it'll be over soon. "It only needs a little kick", they said, ignoring everyone and vandalizing the loved contributions. Years passed and we:

- still stumble upon it even in fresh projects

- have no esm-only bundle-less projects in practice, because it's still impractical

- learned a bookshelf each about the thing that should just work

- watch entire toolchains decay into a shitton of date-dependent issues

- have no clear troubleshooting paths, even when we have a clue what's wrong

They forcefully promised some bright future, we helplessly agreed.

Where the bright?

Three years later, I lost half an evening to [1] again. My love and politeness reserves are depleted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365983