On: Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective...

[BluSyn]

I use JS/TS every day. I tried to understand the intricacies in module/import issues. Just reading about it gave me a headache, and tempted me to just rewrite my entire project in Rust.

I'm still tempted some days.

It's beyond painful. It's infuriating.

[afiori → BluSyn]

It is not going to convince you that ESM modules are well designed... but this post explain a lot of the intricacies

https://jakearchibald.com/2021/export-default-thing-vs-thing...

[b0afc375b5 → afiori]

I read halfway through before my brain shutoff. I keep asking myself if all this complexity is necessary.

[afiori → b0afc375b5]

It is a shame because the whole "import namespaces from URLs" is a nice idea.

In my opinion they should have dropped the whole "live reference imports" which is a completely new concept to the language.

Personally I would have liked inline modules definitions à la Rust.