<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">for those of you don’t use http based email, i’m looking at you qmx and abstractj, this might be a little ugly<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; margin-top: 0px !important;" class="">I want to start off by saying that i think ES6 modules are cool and that i like them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">I think the concern that i have in their current state is that there is to much "processesing" that needs to be done to make them work with existing browsers.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">While this processing is done with automated grunt tasks, i feel that it puts to much "extra" code in the library for not that much reward.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">Another concern with the processing is that it adds lots more development dependecies. One of which is upgrading to npm 2.0, which wasn't as straightforward as i was thinking.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">I do want to commend Lukas, for all his hard work on the es6 modules branch, Good Work My Friend!!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">As "developers on the edge"™ we are exposed to new shiny tech that we want to use right away like modules, AMD, browserfy, etc...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">But i wonder about the other 90% and what they are looking for. Do they even care about AMD, etc...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">I think as a mobile library, we need to not add extra overhead.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" class="">But i think we should keep working on the ES6-modules branch and keep it up to date and direct people to that if they would like to try it.</p></div></body></html>