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> You can do all that with linters but the people that need help with that stuff don't know how to set up a linter in the first place or what options to choose.

Then how would they know how to enable "modern" mode? Junior devs shouldn't be setting up any of that stuff anyway, they should be given a laptop with VSCode + prettier already installed, and all of the config they need should be in the project repo.



The language specification should have a directive similar to "use strict" (the JS doctype kinda thing), something like: "use es23"


> they should be given a laptop with VSCode + prettier already installed, and all of the config they need should be in the project repo.

Most Javascript beginners do not already have a Javascript programming job.


If I don't have to work with them, I don't care how they write their JS.




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