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merb on June 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: ECMAScript 2015 Approved

i dislike the import part. without writing the from part first you can't evaluate the import..

altano on June 17, 2015 [–]

Yeah, the creator of TypeScript was complaining about this in a presentation. I think the existing syntax "import X from Y" reads more naturally than "from Y import X" but obviously the latter is better for tooling and autocomplete/intellisense. Oh well!

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