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> With every programming language, you can do

There are plenty of programming languages where you can't do that. If you really need that, can't you just register it as "my-thing-1" and then register the other one as "my-thing-2"?



Sorry, I edited my post and took that out for being too detailed.

> If you really need that, can't you just register it as "my-thing-1" and then register the other one as "my-thing-2"?

Yes you can, but it means you gotta search-replace something, whereas in every modern programming language you just do an import or an alias or something like that.

And you still can't solve hot-reloading a web component that way.




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