> Does anyone have a detailed understanding of why CommonJS (and its async incarnation, AMD) were not adopted by browsers? I only started my career in ernest i

> Does anyone have a detailed understanding of why CommonJS (and its async incarnation, AMD) were not adopted by browsers? I only started my career in ernest in 2012, but even then compatibility with old versions of IE was a major point, due to their high market share. IE6 was officially retired in 2014, but even then it still accounted for 4.2% of the traffic: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2488448/ie6--retired-but-not-dead-yet.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2488448/ie6--retired-b... Then there were IE8-11, but it was IE6 which lingered way past its welcome, considering it was originally released in 2001.