This doesn't really make sense outside of "JS suxx amirite fellas?" JS had modules before ESM. ES modules try to solve different problems and offer new solutio

This doesn't really make sense outside of "JS suxx amirite fellas?" JS had modules before ESM. ES modules try to solve different problems and offer new solutions with browsers fetching modules themselves, something other module systems don't even do. Whether a language has modules or not is just a design / ecosystem decision, not a technological one. Swift is a modern language (2014) that doesn't even have modules comparable to what Node.js introduced a 14 years ago. Yet it does little to hamper the quality of apps people are building for the Apple ecosystem.