Interesting! I don't know what the original reasoning was behind "use", but I assume it had some advanced capabilities which are now covered by standard "import" so that they don't need their homegrown syntax anymore ('import' is now supported natively by the newest node.js versions).
I heard the 'use' syntax is going to be replaced with ES6 'import' in the next version of AdonisJS v5
Interesting! I don't know what the original reasoning was behind "use", but I assume it had some advanced capabilities which are now covered by standard "import" so that they don't need their homegrown syntax anymore ('import' is now supported natively by the newest node.js versions).
V5 is being rewritten in TypeScript
That's also good news, I'm definitely starting to see the advantages of TS.