huge kudos to everyone who worked on this! Time is such a thankless thing to work on - complex and full of pitfalls, but everyone thinks it *ought* to be simple. (How many management types, or even devs who aren't familiar with time, asked "why tf do we need to spend *this* much effort on it?!?")

March 11, 2026 - 20:35 UTC

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and contrary to what you suggest in the blog, Moment was far from a de-facto standard. there's a rich ecosystem of libraries for working with time - and it isn't the sort of thing that yearns for a rich ecosystem.

having one built-in system that *actually works* is fucking HUGE!
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bonus: rough illustration of why time, despite being a distant second on the list of language pain points, may have been addressed first

i think roughly 20-30% of devs just hate change. but static typing and TS are legit controversial.
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