this is web dev mindset, in all other languages the module name is just a name, it's not supposed to tell you how to retrieve the module, that's the job of the

this is web dev mindset, in all other languages the module name is just a name, it's not supposed to tell you how to retrieve the module, that's the job of the module system. Otherwise it's the service locator anti pattern. I always find it redundant that syntacically, the module name in javascript has to be a string (as in quoted) for whatever reason. In python and php it's just tokens and namespace separator.