> why does Node need file extensions when Other languages don't? Node allows you to require things that aren't commonjs javascript. (json, native extensions, e

> why does Node need file extensions when Other languages don't? Node allows you to require things that aren't commonjs javascript. (json, native extensions, etc). > when Ryan dahl announced Deno, he mentioned [removing extensionless resolution] as an obviously good change I think a lot of people disagree with ryan dahl in this case (I certainly do). The ability to have a dependency expose an interface without knowing what type of thing that dependency is is very powerful, and i think it is one of the reasons people like require so much.