As a JavaScript developer for the past 5 years or so, when jumping into Python I certainly miss the simple require(<json file>) which this seems to replicate into Python pretty well!
Having said that I don't think that I would use it for serious things since this isn't really the Python way and I would like my code to be most understood by others. Neat though!
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation , not Python Object Notation. Furthermore "require" is "proprietary" to nodejs, ES2015 has a different module system and it will be the official js module system.
node was originally an implementation of it before eclipsing it. Between the original advocacy by CommonJS and the rising popularity of node, browserify, and Webpack, things like require() leaked out to become the pre-ES2015 de facto standard for importing modules.
require() is so widespread now, and the transform to the ES2015 syntax so trivial, that it's not going away anytime soon.
Yeah, and? I'm not sure what you were trying to get at but I never said anything to the contrary to this and I mentioned I've done lots of JavaScript dev so this isn't anything new.
Having said that I don't think that I would use it for serious things since this isn't really the Python way and I would like my code to be most understood by others. Neat though!