This is my problem with a lot of HN comments about JS: they read like they were written in 2014 (see also the “a new framework every week!” jokes) ES2015 was t

This is my problem with a lot of HN comments about JS: they read like they were written in 2014 (see also the “a new framework every week!” jokes) ES2015 was the one big language update, and although it took a while to all roll out and for older browsers to die off, at this point we’re now living in “the future” and almost all language changes are incremental. Like, you can write ES modules with async/await and run it in all modern browsers without any compilation. If you add an HTML import-map element you can even import node_modules by name. Now, most people still prefer to use a bundler so that their users can load a single script instead of dozens of tiny ones, but that’s optional, and the gap between “the code you write” and “code that runs in the browser” hasn’t been this small in years.