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		Aeolun on Dec 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of JavaScript 2019 How many JS build tools from 2014 exist? And how many are still used? I think both will be fairly close to zero.

kabes on Dec 19, 2019 | [–]

That's my point. Other people had to rewrite their software for new build tools, while our Meteor app started 5 years ago never needed any big changes, while we could gradually adopt ES6+ features, modules, dynamic imports, ...

conradfr on Dec 19, 2019 | [–]

Are Grunt and Gulp still not used?

conradfr on Dec 19, 2019 | [–]

*aren't -not

Aeolun on Dec 20, 2019 | | [–]

Maybe in really old and ossified projects?

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