If Javascript needs anything, it is a breaking change to go back and clean out all the cruft that has accumulated over two decades of being bent and banged and

If Javascript needs anything, it is a breaking change to go back and clean out all the cruft that has accumulated over two decades of being bent and banged and globbed onto. I don't think that that can actually happen, so we just keep trying to cake more lipstick on the pig; maybe in five years we can put it out to pasture and use WebAssembly instead.