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I don't view the mutability of moment as a complete show stopper, though. If you limit the surface area of the mutability by hiding the underlying moment object within an abstraction, then you can at the very least keep the chances of misusing moment to a minimum.

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I also think it's not a showstopper for Node.js apps. For bundling in a front-end app it's waaaay too big.

The moment locales webpack plugin goes a very long way toward dealing with the size downside of the library.

That said, we wouldn't be in this position if more companies used a shared CDN for libraries instead of always bundling them.

> shared CDN

That helps with transfer but clients still have to parse and execute the javascript which can be significant, especially on mobile devices.

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