alt Hacker NewsFor the old version support. Why not do some compile time #ifdef SUPPORT_ES3? That way library writers can support it and if the user doesn't need it they can disable it at compile time and all the legacy code will be removed
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ascorbic • today at 7:33 AM
It'll still install the dependencies, which is what this is about
Two problems: - people would need to know how to effectively include dependencies in a way that allows them to be tree shaken, that's a fragile setup - polyfills often have quirks and extra behaviours (eg. the extra functions on early promise libraries come to mind ) that they start relying on, making the switch to build-in not so easy
Also, how is this going to look over time with multiple ES versions?