I can relate to this. The "permission" aspect also cuts both ways sometimes, because I learned to be cautious and then _that_ became the thing I was doing wrong, according to others, who berated me for not being assertive enough.

What's worse is that when I left my home and had finally the permission to go outside, at ~14 years old, I was basically unable to make any decisions or take any initiative. I literally had to relearn how to behave in society and at work, one hurtful mistake at a time.

I just encountered this. FYI You can use v2 which still retains commonjs support.

I've ended up using last major versions as well. I plan to move to Deno anyhow, and authors like sindresorhus are at least applying security updates to the major version before the switch.

The incompatibility is indeed exponentiated with TypeScript.

There is currently no non-hacky way for using both legacy modules and ES Modules in the same project, and many libraries on NPM have moved to ESM-only. TypeScript's transpilation needs to know what to target as regards modules and JS version, which makes things even crazier than they already are.

Absolutely this. It's not necessarily communicated that well in the article, but this is the main reason people are frustrated.

Thanks for mentioning these! They look pretty interesting.

The worst one for me is the lack of visual feedback after clicking on a link. It makes me question whether I clicked properly and leads me to click again.

> a French news article [about Japan]

Interestingly I experienced persistent bullying that included physical assault and mental abuse (it was always successfully passed off as a joke when they did something to me) in the French system.

It was so bad that I still relive it daily every single day now, many many years later.

Do you think these courses would be worthwhile for a seasoned software engineer?

I followed them a long while ago, they're fun but you'll probably find they move too slowly.

Seriously though, they are fun. Racket's way of programming with pictures is great. Maybe following the book at your own pace would be more rewarding.

I have the same experience. I also overshot "assertive," but the alternative was that everyone would continue to steamroll me to the point of despair. Assertive wasn't enough to safeguard my dignity.

It is indeed exactly as you said. The world chewed me up for being innocent. I was routinely physically assaulted at school. These things were passed off as roughhousing or joking and the adults never intervened, and some even seemed to appreciate the "humor."

The adults rolled their eyes at me essentially for being weak, it was sort of like "sigh, what are we gonna do with that kid?" It occurs to me now that these were bitter, jaded people who hated a child for his naiveté.

If I defended myself, I was the bad guy. At some point I thought: "it doesn't make sense that I am the one who is right and that everyone else is wrong, so maybe I should be more like those guys." But then I got punished too. For example, it was considered funny for people to kick me in the balls at times. It had happened to me 10+ times and nobody got punished. Regrettably, I did it once to another kid and it was a scandal and I got punished.

I am in a healthy place now but I thank God I got through the teen and young adult years without becoming a criminal. I think I easily could have, because I came out of school a deeply damaged individual.