Babel Takes IE8 Into Orbit
Description
A three-panel comic shows a car driving through worsening conditions while the passengers keep invoking Babel as protection. In the first snowy panel, a child asks, "PAPA ARE YOU SURE WE CAN DRIVE IN THIS?" and the driver answers, "IT'S OKAY WE HAVE BABEL"; the road is labeled with Babel-related markings. In the second panel the car climbs a steep mountain marked "Internet Explorer 8" while someone says, "BUT THIS IS DANGEROUS," and the driver says, "DON'T WORRY BABEL." In the final panel the car is inexplicably in space above Earth, with the caption "WHERE THE HELL ARE WE EVEN GO..." and a huge speech bubble reading "BABEL," satirizing how frontend teams lean on transpilers to survive legacy browser support until the build chain feels more absurd than the target platform.
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Babel can transpile syntax, but it still cannot transpile a business requirement out of supporting IE8.