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by ryan-ca 289 days ago
Polyfills are standard for websites to be compatible with older browsers.
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It will all break in time.

These things that look like institutions, that look like bricks carved from granite, are just spinning plates that have been spinning for a few years.

When I fight glibc dependency hell across Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24, I sympathize with Firefox choosing to spin the 64-bit plates and not the 32-bit plates.

Not applicable, though javascript is a programming language not a standard library.