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"Modern" is another meaningless software-project marketing adjective like "blazingly fast". I'm pretty sure we'll eventually be able to use these buzzwords to perform carbon-dating of old projects.

"Hmm, uses the term 'modern' but the README has limited image macro memes... seems like an early 2019 release."

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Jest, FB's JS testing framework, is described as blazing fast but is actually twice as slow as Jasmine (or was at some point). If twice as slow is blazing fast, I don't know what twice as fast is. I do know 'blazing fast' is meaningless. It's just deceptive.

For reference: https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/6694

OT, but I was using Jest and switched back to Mocha. Since my tests are nothing special and 100% browser env they load instant. Should have done sooner

I made liberal use of jest's expectation framework and module mocking. Migrating is 'doable' but at this stage in the project I can't justify the delay on the deadline.

I've got about 200 integration tests too with a package that builds itself into an OS dependent state so I'm stuck running things in a VM. Probably easier to mark up the tests so I can run unit tests most of the time. That should make things bearable.

In this case, I think "modern" means "uses ES modules", which have somewhat recently become standardised, but have not (yet) been adopted by all npm packages for various reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294189

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