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[โ€“] soloner 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browser compatibility. Design flaws can't easily be fixed like how other languages can just switch to a new major version and introduce breaking changes. ES must keep backwards compatibility so has had to do more additive changes than replacing behavior altogether so that older web pages pages don't break.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile google is about to break the internet with html drm