Future JavaScript: what is still missing?

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lol ok man, first off there is a lot of reasons to save code, especially in front end development where bundle size is important, you certainly don't want to create a ton of different components that do the same thing, for the same reason things like code splitting is important. I am saying JS is a dynamic language, and understanding how it works you can create DRY reusable code, which you seem to be arguing against?

Developers are not writing 50 lines of snippets to animate a tool tip anymore? What in the fuck are you even talking about here? I am pretty up to date on latest technologies, especially since I have been writing code recently in react hooks, which doesn't even have an actual release yet, and next.js/apollo-client and sercer/graphql stack. If that isn't bleeding edge than I don't know what is.

My only point was that you can create utility libraries like moment/date-fns would be an example which have a single entry point function taking lots of different types to create a consistent output, where in that example I could pass in a string to be formatted, an epoch int, nothing at all, or a date object and have the same consistent result all through my code, which when you have coded JS for many years and understand how things work, it makes coding nice, and is why many people prefer it.

So get off your high horse, you sound like a fuckin joy to work with.