We're not talking about destroying the work of the people who were Told™. We're talking about destroying (the only copy of) the work of authors whose publishers (unwittingly, in many cases) used the wrong paper.https://twitter.com/brianmfitch/status/971770091665752064 …
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Turning "we try hard not to break" into a broadly morally suspect position strikes me as overheated rhetoric. That said, smoosh() is a bad name for this API.
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At what point is it up to developers to understand they’re making bad decisions? It’s long been understood modifying built-in prototypes was not a good practice.
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This was brought up before - back then modifying the prototype was bad because of conflicts with OTHER LIBRARIES. JS had stagnated for ages, and people didn't expect language additions that would conflict.
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A bad practice is a bad practice even if the underlying reason has changed.
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