How JavaScript evolved to be able to handle more complexity, explained by Evan You

[00:00] Um, JavaScript was a language that was [00:02] designed in 10 days, not really intended [00:04] for serious engineering when it was [00:07] first, you know, designed. We ended up [00:09] building larger, more complex [00:11] applications on the web. Figma is an [00:13] example. You know, Google productivity [00:15] stuff, Google Docs, Riverside that we're [00:18] using right now. A lot of these [00:20] traditional applications that we thought [00:22] had to be done on the desktop are now [00:24] built with web technologies. So the [00:26] scope of what's possible on the web [00:28] expanded very rapidly. But JavaScript [00:30] was a language that was not really [00:32] designed for this purpose. It had to [00:34] evolve. So there comes the problem of [00:36] bundling. You need to like stitch all [00:37] these files together. So each file [00:40] contains variables. You don't want them [00:41] to be all in the global scope. That [00:43] would become unmanageable. So you now [00:44] need to have imports and exports between [00:46] modules. But putting all these things [00:49] together and make it just work is very [00:52] complicated. At least in the early