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Comment by pmontra | Hacker News Reader

The syntax is better than the CommonJS one. Check the side by side comparison at http://jsmodules.io/cjs.html However CommonJS is here now and JS engines might take a while to implement the new syntax. Example: the => (which is in the same ES6 draft) works in FF since version 22 and not in V8 yet. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:specification...

That is not an honest comparison, though.

    import { getCodec } from "iconv-lite";

would be

    var getCodec = require("iconv-lite").getCodec;

Or in CoffeeScript,

    {getCodec} = require "iconv-lite"

Explicit dependencies without introducing new syntax? Yes, please.

or in es6 var {getCodec} = require("iconv-lite");