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Re:Node.js 16 Available Now by capableweb on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:45PM (#26880423)
The original point was that not everyone want all these syntactic sugar "features" shipped with the core runtime...
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Re:Node.js 16 Available Now by jakelazaroff on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:53PM (#26880552)
What’s the syntactic sugar feature here? Top-level await is part of the language spec.
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Re:Node.js 16 Available Now by throwanem on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:15PM (#26880945)
One into which you have to opt in, yet.
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Re:Node.js 16 Available Now by eyelidlessness on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:45PM (#26881400)
I don’t think that’s true. It’s supported in any ESM module, per the ESM standard, without any config or runtime flags. If you mean using ESM to be the opt-in mechanism, that’s not a meaningful distinction. CJS modules and require have always been synchronous and likely always will be. Changing that would break too many things.
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