Joakim Hedlund Sleavely

ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

Upgrade Debian 9 (current WSL) to Debian 12 (bookworm testing)

Note: I do not maintain this gist anymore, but people report that it still works. Please check the comments for any revisions or extra things you should take into consideration.

As of writing, the Debian distro for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is quite old.

You can get more up-to-date package managers, text-editors and compilers by upgrading WSL to Debian 12 (current testing).

Root required

Use at your own risk, preferably on a fresh installation.

	async function forEachSerial(cb, arr) {
	await arr.reduce(async (prevPromise, value) => {
	await prevPromise;
	return cb(value);
	}, Promise.resolve());
	}

	async function forEachParallel(cb, arr) {
	await Promise.all(arr.map(cb));
	}

	/** Copyright 2019 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. */
	"use strict";

	/**
	* The runtime has a single beforeExit function which is stored in the global
	* object with a symbol key.
	* The symbol is not exported.
	* The process.beforeExit listener is setup in index.js along with all other
	* top-level process event listeners.
	*/

	# Source: http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/07/18/pstip-how-to-switch-off-display-with-powershell/

	# Turn display off by calling WindowsAPI.

	# PostMessage(HWND_BROADCAST,WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, POWER_OFF)
	# HWND_BROADCAST 0xffff
	# WM_SYSCOMMAND 0x0112
	# SC_MONITORPOWER 0xf170
	# POWER_OFF 0x0002