The current ESM experience makes it seem like decision-makers in the node.js project were wilfully oblivious to how large the TypeScript community was and how it was being used in node modules and projects. It really does feel like the maintainers focus was on JS and harmony with TypeScript's evolution was low on the priority list.
Meanwhile anyone using an intersection of TypeScript with jest and any of sindresorhus' libraries when he flipped to ESM for his bajillion libraries immediately felt the downside and moved hard away from ESM.
Imagine the mind-boggling hours lost just to get these export/import formats to glue.
Meanwhile anyone using an intersection of TypeScript with jest and any of sindresorhus' libraries when he flipped to ESM for his bajillion libraries immediately felt the downside and moved hard away from ESM.
Imagine the mind-boggling hours lost just to get these export/import formats to glue.