In hindsight, when I was under a lot of…

In hindsight, when I was under a lot of pressure to drop CoffeeScript a decade
ago in favor of "modern" JavaScript (defined as using tools like babel and
webpack), I wish I'd held my ground.

Without a doubt I'd be better off today if I'd just gone straight from CoffeeScript to real ESM and import maps. Just spent three hours dealing with bitrot in a webpack config with no end in sight. The JavaScript Dream was always a house of cards.

3.6k likes · March 8, 2024 at 6:14 PM UTC

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