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by disintegrator 477 days ago
In principle you’ll still be able to use all of the features that existed before this flag but you’ll need to compile the code if targeting Node.js. I do think that this new flag is going to draw people away and we’ll probably see a bunch of tsconfig presets and boilerplate projects setting it to true.

If you’re using a bundler then your’re not to going benefit from it in the medium term. It’s possible this will unlock faster build times with them in the future.