reactus

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   by reactus 2y ago

   I didn't say that. Stealing $4k is bad, but I can't say I hate the guy for it. It's not like he ran into the store with a machine gun and murdered the clerk to get the cash in the register. Also the suit anecdote could have b
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   by reactus 2y ago

   Several commenters here hate the writer, calling him "completely insufferable", "a character that the reader hates", or "a selfish, narcissistic jerk". But I didn't find him that bad? His worst crime was s
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   by reactus 3y ago

   > It's been absolutely awful for everyone. It only became awful for me when people started publishing pure ESM packages; `npm i node-fetch` suddenly began resulting in broken scripts and I had to learn why. Prior to that, I happily
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   by reactus 3y ago

   Would anyone be interested in an article about the crusade to move JS to ESM? I've been considering writing one, here's a preview: Sindresorus wrote a gist "Pure ESM modules"[0] and converted all his modules to Pure ESM,
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   by reactus 4y ago

   From the moment I understood the weakness of vanillaJS, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of unidirectional data flow. I aspired to the purity of Blessed Functional Programming. Your kind cling to fad frameworks and half-