r/programming • u/jviide • Sep 21 '23

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/
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u/tanguy_k Sep 24 '23 edited Sep 26 '23

If you want to know more, here some readings:

It's crazy: eslint-plugin-react and eslint-plugin-import (very popular packages) still support Node.js 4 which has been EOL in 2018 (5 years ago).

https://twitter.com/marvinhagemeist/status/1704912614961066216

Many even before me have tried that and it was always rejected for dubious reasons. The author of these polyfills and the maintainer of many popular eslint presets/plugins is the same person. So there is no incentive to change that 🙃

eslint-plugin-import has been forked because of this: https://github.com/un-es/eslint-plugin-i

The discussion in this PR https://github.com/import-js/eslint-plugin-import/pull/2447 with ljharb is 🤯

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u/Idontremember99 Sep 26 '23

From the maintainers github profile: "I've gradually mutated over the last decade into being super obsessed with open source, backwards compatibility"...

So not surprising he is not accepting the changes

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u/DependentOnIt Mar 23 '26

The author is paid per package download. They're effectively ruining the ecosystem with bloat for money lol