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Can anybody explain to me why ES didn't simply adopt the require syntax from Node.js?

• yuchi 8y ago
  Import statements must be asynchronous in the latency-controlled environments (mostly browsers). CJS is by definition synchronous and has different order semantics when treating execution of an asynchronous loader.
  • pvorb 8y ago
    But it could simply be implemented using the same routine in browsers like `import`. I don't see why `require` can't be asynchronous. There's an implicit join after the last import. Maybe it would have been enough to restrict calls to `require` to the top of a file.