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Ah yeah, I remember that. General point still stands: in terms of the lived experience of developers, `var` is essentially deprecated.
replyI touch JS that uses var heavily on a daily basis and I would be incredibly surprised to find out that I am alone in that.
replyfor some values of "everyone" and "never".
replyDepending on the transpiler and mode of operation, `var` is sometimes emitted.
replyFor example, esbuild will emit var when targeting ESM, for performance and minification reasons. Because ESM has its own inherent scope barrier, this is fine, but it won't apply the same optimizations when targeting (e.g.) IIFE, because it's not fine in that context.