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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by djmashko2 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:20PM (#13852491)
I think you missed that the parent meant that libraries are compiled _before_ publishing. So even if the library is written with ES6 you can simply require it with no build setup.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by erikpukinskis on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:33PM (#13862072)
Many (most?) libraries are not built that way. There are plenty of libraries that use async in their exports.
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