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You made a similar comment elsewhere about ES6 being "half-baked", and I'll ask my question again here:

Can you explain more what is half-baked about ES6 modules? To me the logic and syntax of how imports [1] and exports [2] are organized seems clean, but maybe I'm missing something?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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I agree, if we had all started with it, it is nice. But it completely breaks backwards compatibility with the whole existing node.js ecosystem, costing countless developer hours. It seems very likely to me a solution could have been found that would allow node to support the combination of esm and cjs.

ok, that makes sense (and sorry for making you answer twice). But I think sometimes a clean break is a necessary part of progress.

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